Nobel’s furniture design was dynamite | Letters

One-legged stools | Mercia mudstone | Death by fish | Lancia cars | Naming your coldAll this discussion about the relative design and merits of three-legged stools (Letters passim) is as nothing compared with the so-called suicide stool, a one-legged stool designed by Alfred Nobel to prevent operators of the nitroglycerin reaction vats – part of the production process of his dynamite – falling asleep and allowing an exothermic runaway to occur, with the consequent explosion ruining e