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DuPont Magazine [February 1914]
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: Avoid Thawing Accidents; The Trouble Duo; Improved Red Cross Dynamite; A Winner: Red Cross Extra 20%; Snow Doesn't Fease the Red Cross Blaster; Word "Danger" on Every Cartridge; A Remarkable Shot with DuPont Straight Dynamite and...
DuPont Magazine, 1913-2003

DuPont Magazine [April 1914]
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: Conservation; Excavating Lake Washington Canal; Dependability; Smokeless Bananas; Ballistite Unhurt by Three Months' Immersion; Practical Explosives Efficiency; Two or More Electric Blasting Caps in a Bore Hole; Depth of Charges...
DuPont Magazine, 1913-2003

DuPont Magazine [January 1914]
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: DuPont Gelatin Blasts Tunnels Under the Mississippi; Dynamite Extinguishes Mine Fire; The Blast Heard 'Round the World; Practical Explosives' Efficiency; DuPont Blasting Gelatin Not Low Freezing; Foresight and Hindsight; Lighting...
DuPont Magazine, 1913-2003

Blasting for the West Viginia Turnpike
The switch is thrown on the DuPont Condenser Discharge Blasting Machine and all 900 holes are fired at once. This machine, which builds up enough voltage to set off as many as 1200 holes at one time, removed the need for power lines or portable...
DuPont Product Information Photographs

Blasting for the Coliseum and Convention Hall
Setting off the charge with a DuPont blasting machine. This is a mechanical type electric blasting machine and is used for firing small blasts.
DuPont Product Information Photographs

Blasting at Ripple Rock, Seymour Narrows, British Columbia
Blasting; Explosives;
Typed caption on photo: "Water-tight cans of explosives being pushed into the cage at the collar of a 570-foot vertical mine shaft on Maud Island, about 120 miles northwest of Vancouver, B.C. The explosive was used to blow the top off Ripple Rock,...
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Blasting at Ripple Rock, Seymour Narrows, British Columbia
Blasting; Explosives; Ships
Typed caption: "Long a menace to navigation, Ripple Rock used to lie in Seymour Narrows, above, 120 miles northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia. If the peaks of the rock had been visible they would have appeared directly above the freighter's...
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DuPont Magazine [April 1926]
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Plastics industry; Ammunition; Quarrying; Blasting;
Table of Contents: The new president; If I would find a dynamite cap; Pyralin in the shoe industry; DuPont products to the millions; Trapshooting, an ideal sport; Italian firm wins Fabrikoid cup; Interior finishing with Duco; Mound builders worked...
DuPont Magazine, 1913-2003

DuPont Magazine [January-February 1932]
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Paint industry; Plastics industry; Textile industry; Automobile industry; Rayon; Quarrying; Blasting;
Table of Contents: Gunpowder was scarce in Washington's day; Packages for better selling; The prized pearls of industry; Rayon fabrics, a forecast; West Virginia's greatest tunnel project; The exploding wedge; New Fabrikoid effects and grains for...
DuPont Magazine, 1913-2003

Specifications for Lammot du Pont's Blasting Powder Patent
Gunpowder; Explosives; Ordnance industry; Patents
Lammot du Pont's specifications for blasting powder made from sodium nitrate rather than potassium nitrate. This powder was called soda powder or soda blasting powder. Also included is a letter from George Harding suggesting changes to the...
DuPont Company Collection

Blasting for the West Viginia Turnpike
Well broken rock was the objective, and the result was what drillers call maximum fragmentation with minimum back break. Along the turnpike the crack and rumbling of blasting has given way to the drone of traffic.
DuPont Product Information Photographs

Blasting
Dynamite is brought up to the face after round has been drilled. DuPont's Special Gelatin 40% strength is widely used in all types of underground blasting.
DuPont Product Information Photographs

Delay action blasting caps
Next step is loading the dynamite into the holes. Delay action electric blasting caps are used to fire the holes in sequence.
DuPont Product Information Photographs

Carter Lake Pressure Tunnel, Ripple Rock, British Columbia
Blasting; Explosives;
Typed caption on photo: "F.D. Bickel (left) of the DuPont Company and Jack Buchanan, Northern Construction Company superintendent, study the loading chart of a coyote tunnel in the north pinnacle of Ripple Rock. Shortly thereafter, in the greatest...
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Carter Lake Pressure Tunnel, Ripple Rock, British Columbia
Blasting; Explosives;
Typed caption on photo: "This is the scene in Seymour Narrows, 120 miles northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia, as the largest non-atomic blast in history sheared the tops off the top of the twin underwater peaks of Ripple Rock, one of the...
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Road Construction - Blasting
road construction; dirt roads; blasting; explosives; winter; roads
note with image: "Blasting" "Building the duPont Boulevard Thru Ellendale Swamp. Sussex County - Del."
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DuPont Magazine [November 1913]
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Blasting;
Table of Contents: National Drainage Law; World's Greatest Hydro-Electric Plant; Fabrikoid Leather for Bookbinding; Prize for Improved Priming; Large Capacity Blasting Machine; Farming with Dynamite; Practical Explosives Efficiency; Sport at the...
DuPont Magazine, 1913-2003

DuPont Magazine [July 1919]
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Automobile industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Textile industry;
Table of Contents: Story of an Auto Top; Story of Linoleum; Hunters' Paradise; Art of Wood Finishing; Passing of a Famous Tree; Travel Right; Collar Comfort in Hot Weather; Blasting Practice in Joplin Zinc District; Victory Auto Finish; Blasting...
DuPont Magazine, 1913-2003

DuPont Magazine [February 1921]
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Automobile industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Textile industry; Firearms industry;
Table of Contents: Price decline; Front yard blasting; Romance of varnish; Our 1921 advertising; Maritime protection; Fabrikoid super-finish; Blasting and trigonometry.
DuPont Magazine, 1913-2003

DuPont Magazine [February 1925]
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Automobile industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: Something worthy to be remembered; Ditch blasting within city limits; A river of chocolates; Pyralin helps madam select her dress; Ditching through rock; Duco finish for railway equipment and rolling stock; Accordion-pleated...
DuPont Magazine, 1913-2003

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