History of the Explosives Industry in America /

History of the Explosives Industry in America / / 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.

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (1134 p.)
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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

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