He rewrote his will in 1895 to establish the Nobel foundation as the legal owner and administrating agent of the funds and to institute the prizes named after him along with the original amount of nine million dollars.
The legend mentioned in the passage about Alfred Nobel is that Nobel's death had been erroneously reported in a newspaper, and that the focus of the obituary was the fact that Nobel had invented dynamite.
Before full-scale production of a particular design, Engineers generally try to predict how well their designs will perform to their specifications and they use, among other things, prototypes, scale models, simulations, destructive tests, nondestructive tests, and stress tests.