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.
The conditions that must be fulfilled to with the Nobel prize are to invent or discover something that would have the greatest benefit to humanity in a particular year.
Poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution refers to the deprivation of basic human needs, which commonly includes food, water, sanitation, clothing shelter, health care and education. Relative poverty is redefined contextually as economic inequality in the location or society in which people live.