Download or read book Gunpowder and High Explosives written by Willoughby Walke and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gunpowder and High Explosives written by Willoughby Walke and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gunpowder and High Explosives written by Willoughby Walke and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chemistry of Powder And Explosives written by Dr. Tenney L. Davis and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume contains in one binding the whole contents of Volume I, first published in May, 1941, and the whole contents of Volume II which was published in March, 1943. The book was primarily for chemists. The writing of it was commenced in order that a textbook might be available for the use of students in the course in powder and explosives which the author gave for about twenty years (nearly every year since the first World War) to fourth-year and graduate students of chemistry and of chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[...] The aim of the book has been to describe as clearly and interestingly as possible, and as fully as seemed profitable the modes of behavior, both physical and chemical, of explosive substances, whether these modes find practical application or not. Historical material has been included where it was thought that it contributed to this end, and has not been included elsewhere or for any other reason. It is a fact that a knowledge of the history of ideas, of persons, or of things produces something of the same sympathetic understanding of them that living with them and working with them does.-Print ed.
Download or read book Black and Smokeless Powders written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-01-29 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 600 pipe bomb explosions have occurred annually in the United States during the past several years. How can technology help protect the public from these homemade devices? This book, a response to a Congressional mandate, focuses on ways to improve public safety by preventing bombings involving smokeless or black powders and apprehending the makers of the explosive devices. It examines technologies used for detection of explosive devices before they explodeâ€"including the possible addition of marking agents to the powdersâ€"and technologies used in criminal investigations for identification of these powdersâ€"including the possible addition of taggants to the powdersâ€"in the context of current technical capabilities. The book offers general conclusions and recommendations about the detection of devices containing smokeless and black powders and the feasibility of identifying makers of the devices from recovered powder or residue. It also makes specific recommendations about marking and tagging technologies. This volume follows the work reported in Containing the Threat from Illegal Bombings (NRC 1998), which studied similar issues for bombings that utilize high explosives.
Download or read book Index to the Literature of Explosives written by Charles Edward Munroe and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summary of State Laws Pertaining to Explosives written by United States. Bureau of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chemistry of Powder and Explosives written by Tenney Lombard Davis and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gunpowder written by Jack Kelly and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Chinese alchemists fashioned the first manmade explosion sometime during the tenth century, no one could have foreseen its full revolutionary potential. Invented to frighten evil spirits rather than fuel guns or bombs-neither of which had been thought of yet-their simple mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal went on to make the modern world possible. As word of its explosive properties spread from Asia to Europe, from pyrotechnics to battleships, it paved the way for Western exploration, hastened the end of feudalism and the rise of the nation state, and greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution. With dramatic immediacy, novelist and journalist Jack Kelly conveys both the distant time in which the "devil's distillate" rose to conquer the world, and brings to rousing life the eclectic cast of characters who played a role in its epic story, including Michelangelo, Edward III, Vasco da Gama, Cortez, Guy Fawkes, Alfred Nobel, and E.I. DuPont. A must-read for history fans and military buffs alike, Gunpowder brings together a rich terrain of cultures and technological innovations with authoritative research and swashbuckling style.
Download or read book Military Explosives written by United States. Army. Ordnance Department and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes on Military Explosives written by Erasmus Morgan Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Analysis of Black Powder and Dynamite written by Walter Otheman Snelling and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boom written by Simon Quellen Field and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black powder, the world's first chemical explosive, was originally developed during the Tang dynasty in China.It was a crude mixture at first, but over time chemists discovered the optimum proportion of sulfur, charcoal, and nitrates, as well as the best way to mix them for a complete and powerful reaction. Author and chemistry buff Simon Quellen Field takes readers on a decades-long journey through the history of things that go boom, from the early days of black powder to today's modern plastic explosives. Not just the who, when, and why, but also the how. How did Chinese alchemists come to create black powder? What accidents led to the discovery of high explosives? How do explosives actually work on a molecular scale? Boom! The Chemistry and History of Explosives reviews the original papers and patents written by the chemists who invented them, to shed light on their development, to explore the consequences of their use for good and ill, and to give the reader a basic understanding of the chemistry that makes them possible.
Download or read book Dangerous Energy written by Wayne D. Cocroft and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises a national study of the explosives industry and provides a framework for identification of its industrial archaeology and social history. Few monuments of gunpowder manufacture survive in Britain from the Middle Ages, although its existence is documented. Late 17th-century water-powered works are identifiable but sparse. In the later 18th century, however, the industry was transformed by state acquisition of key factories, notably at Faversham and at Waltham Abbey.In the mid-19th century developments in Britain paralleled those in continental Europe and in America, namely a shift to production on an industrial scale related to advances in armaments technology. The urgency and large-scale demands of the two world wars brought state-directed or state-led solutions to explosives production in the 20th century. Yhe book’s concluding section looks at planning, preservation, conservation and presentation in relation to prospective future uses of these sites.
Download or read book Explosives in History The Story of Black Powder written by Norman B. Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Explosives written by Ordnance Department and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Handbook on Modern Explosives written by Manuel Eissler and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
