The nitroglycerin used in dynamite manufacture travels over long wooden walks on rubber tired buggies in passage from process to process at a DuPont Company dynamite plant.
This is an Atlas mixing machine, used in the manufacture of dynamite at Repauno about 1895. The box in the foreground contains inert ingredients which are placed in the trough. Nitroglycerin is added from the containers shown on the cart at the...
Nitroglycerin is made in nitrating house by mixing glycerin with nitric and sulfuric acids. This is most critical operation in explosives plant; equipment enables operator to drown an entire charge in water, if necessary.
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Nitroglycerin is poured from a baker into a small gelatin dynamite mixer at the Eastern Laboratory at the Repauno, New Jersey plant of the DuPont Company where new explosives are constantly in the process o development.
DuPont's 50 year old plant 20 miles southwest of Denver, Colorado has 97 separate buildings. Nitroglycerin is shown above. Buildings are widely dispersed for safety reasons, with only two to three men working in most units. The result: the plant...
Typed caption: "This is an Atlas mixing machine, used in the manufacture of dynamite at Repauno c. 1895. The box in the foreground contains inert ingredients which are place in the trough. Nitroglycerin us added from the containers shown on the...
