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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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