Handwritten on back: "Charles E. Gorsuch, Martinsburg, Pa. Blacksmith. Made little iron horse [word unintelligible] 1 in long & sent to famous people for their autographs. Large collection."
Not an archaeologists discovery of some ancient city, but the Explosives Department's new streamlined dynamite plant 8 miles from Martinsburg, West Virginia. DuPont selected this site because it is near the biggest markets: the coal mine fields of...
Tunnel leads into one of the ten mound shaped buildings which form manufacturing area at DuPont's dynamite plant near Martinsburg, West Virginia. Concrete walls are twice as thick as foundation of well built home. Air conditioning is new feature of...
Aluminum covered conveyors snake across landscape, adding another weird touch to the Explosives Departments dynamite plant near Martinsburg, West Virginia. By eliminating old style powder buggies, conveyors reduce handling and speed the manufacture.
Boxes of dynamite roll into transfer shed at end of dynamite production line at DuPont's Potomac River Works, Martinsburg, West Virginia. Hydraulic motors on powder machinery, automatic feeding and packing of paper cartridges are but a few of the...
In 1880, the first charge of nitroglycerine was produced at the Repauno dynamite pant in a building similar in architecture and construction to the one above-as waste acid building. This structure was still in operation until 1954 when the company...
