History of the Explosives Industry in America
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History of the Explosives Industry in America

  1. 1,134 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

History of the Explosives Industry in America

About this book

A narrative history of the explosives industry in the United States and Canada that discusses the technical development of the industry as well its commercial history.

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Information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9780231914369
eBook ISBN
9780231883733
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business General
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I. Black Powder
  5. 1. Early History of Gunpowder
  6. 2. Colonial Powder Mills
  7. 3. Powder Mills During the Revolution
  8. 4. From the Beginning of the 19th Century to the Civil War
  9. 5. The Civil War
  10. 6. From the Civil War to 1912
  11. 7. E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Company
  12. 8. Laflin & Rand Powder Company
  13. 9. Other Early Members of the Gunpowder Trade Association
  14. 10. West Coast Powder Mills
  15. 11. Other American Black Powder Mills
  16. 12. From 1913 to the Present
  17. II. Nitroglycerine and Dynamite
  18. 1. Introduction and Development of High Explosives for Blasting
  19. 2. Manufacture and Use of Nitroglycerine in America
  20. 3. The Dynamite Industry in America
  21. 4. The Atlas-Giant Group
  22. 5. The Hercules Group
  23. 6. The duPont Group
  24. 7. Other High Explosives Companies in Existence July 1, 1925
  25. 8. Miscellaneous High Explosives Companies, Not in Existence on July 1, 1925
  26. 9. American High Explosives Companies Outside of the United States
  27. Part III. Blasting Supplies
  28. 1. Blasting Supplies
  29. Part IV. Smokeless Powder
  30. 1. Introductory Historical Development
  31. 2. Smokeless Powder in the United States
  32. 3. The American E. C. & Schultze Powder Company
  33. 4. Smokeless Powder in the United States Navy
  34. 5. Smokeless Powder in the United States Army
  35. 6. California Powder Works
  36. 7. Leonard Smokeless Powder Company, American Smokeless Powder Company, Laflin & Rand Powder Company
  37. 8. International Smokeless Powder and Dynamite Company, International Smokeless Powder and Chemical Company
  38. 9. E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Company
  39. 10. Hercules Powder Company
  40. 11. Miscellaneous War Developments
  41. 12. Picrate and Chlorate Gunpowders
  42. 13. Brazilian And Mexican Factories, Smokeless Powder Trends
  43. Part V. Military Explosives
  44. 1. Military Explosives
  45. Part VI. Explosives in the Making of America
  46. 1. Introductory
  47. 2. The Mineral Industry
  48. 3. American Engineering Projects
  49. Appendices
  50. I. History of the Institute of Makers of Explosives
  51. II. Report to Committee of Safety
  52. III. Fairmont Powder Company
  53. IV. Small Pennsylvania Mills
  54. V. West Coast Mills – Small California Companies
  55. VI. Dynamite Machinery Developments
  56. VII. Donner Lake Nitroglycerine Factory
  57. VIII. Pioneer San Francisco Dynamite Factories
  58. IX. Supplement to California Powder Works
  59. X. E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Company
  60. Index