History of the Explosives Industry in America / / Arthur Pine Van Gelder, Hugo Schlatter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Gelder, Arthur Pine Van,; Schlatter, Hugo,
• TeilnehmendeR: Munroe, Charles E.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1927]; ©1927
• Year of Publication: 1927
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1134 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part I. Black Powder --; 1. Early History of Gunpowder --; 2. Colonial Powder Mills --; 3. Powder Mills During the Revolution --; 4. From the Beginning of the 19th Century to the Civil War --; 5. The Civil War --; 6. From the Civil War to 1912 --; 7. E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Company --; 8. Laflin & Rand Powder Company --; 9. Other Early Members of the Gunpowder Trade Association --; 10. West Coast Powder Mills --; 11. Other American Black Powder Mills --; 12. From 1913 to the Present --; II. Nitroglycerine and Dynamite --; 1. Introduction and Development of High Explosives for Blasting --; 2. Manufacture and Use of Nitroglycerine in America --; 3. The Dynamite Industry in America --; 4. The Atlas-Giant Group --; 5. The Hercules Group --; 6. The duPont Group --; 7. Other High Explosives Companies in Existence July 1, 1925 --; 8. Miscellaneous High Explosives Companies, Not in Existence on July 1, 1925 --; 9. American High Explosives Companies Outside of the United States --; Part III. Blasting Supplies --; 1. Blasting Supplies --; Part IV. Smokeless Powder --; 1. Introductory Historical Development --; 2. Smokeless Powder in the United States --; 3. The American E. C. & Schultze Powder Company --; 4. Smokeless Powder in the United States Navy --; 5. Smokeless Powder in the United States Army --; 6. California Powder Works --; 7. Leonard Smokeless Powder Company, American Smokeless Powder Company, Laflin & Rand Powder Company --; 8. International Smokeless Powder and Dynamite Company, International Smokeless Powder and Chemical Company --; 9. E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Company --; 10. Hercules Powder Company --; 11. Miscellaneous War Developments --; 12. Picrate and Chlorate Gunpowders --; 13. Brazilian And Mexican Factories, Smokeless Powder Trends --; Part V. Military Explosives --; 1. Military Explosives --; Part VI. Explosives in the Making of America --; 1. Introductory --; 2. The Mineral Industry --; 3. American Engineering Projects --; Appendices --; I. History of the Institute of Makers of Explosives --; II. Report to Committee of Safety --; III. Fairmont Powder Company --; IV. Small Pennsylvania Mills --; V. West Coast Mills – Small California Companies --; VI. Dynamite Machinery Developments --; VII. Donner Lake Nitroglycerine Factory --; VIII. Pioneer San Francisco Dynamite Factories --; IX. Supplement to California Powder Works --; X. E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Company --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231883733; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/geld91436
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Arthur Pine Van Gelder, Hugo Schlatter.

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.