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...
This scene shows part of the loading of large cartridges of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite in the Susquehanna River near Marietta, Pennsylvania. The cartridges were five inches in diameter, 24 inches long and weighed 25 pounds each. The illustration...
Table of Contents: Fire, arch enemy of wild life; Environment tempts the patron of the modern restaurant; Gelatin dynamites; Famous art designs are reproduced in the new Lucite sets; My bookhouse, my travelship; Road building in Virginia; Cobble...
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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.
Dynamite is shoveled into the hopper of a gelatin cartridge machine which packs the explosive into a heavy paper tube, closes the tube ends, and ejects the finished cartridge at the Repauno, New Jersey plant of the DuPont Company.
A supervisor of the DuPont Company's Explosives Department prepares to set off charge of 16,000 pounds of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite which helped blast a trench for the Big Inch oil pipe line in the solid rock bottom of the Susquehanna River near...
This scene shows pipe for the Big Inch oil line being unloaded beside the Susquehanna River at Marietta, Pennsylvania. About sixty thousand pounds of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite were used to blast a trench 2,000 feet long and eight feet deep in the...
Workmen unload part of the 60,000 pounds of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite which will be used to blast a trench 2000 feet long and eight feet deep for the Big Inch oil pipe line in the solid rock bottom of the Susquehanna River near Marietta,...
This view shows a shot of approximately 16,000 pounds of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite in the Susquehanna River near Marietta, Pennsylvania. It was one of several blasts made to create a trench in the river bed for the laying of Big Inch, the world's...
A typical instance of control over giant explosive forces was the damming of the Saguenay River in Canada for a hydroelectric project. The torrential rush of the current balked successive attempts to complete a cofferdam, the conventional method....
A typical instance of control over giant explosive forces was the damming of the Saguenay River in Canada for a hydroelectric project. The torrential rush of the current balked successive attempts to complete a cofferdam, the conventional method....
In grading the 88 miles of the West Virginia Turnpike, the builders has a rugged job on their hands in moving 30,000,000 cubic yards of dirt and rock. DuPont gelatin dynamite is being loaded into holes. This type of dynamite is used in mining,...
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.
Anthony Christy, 1756-1862, was born in Brussels, Belgium. He came to American and became captain of a ship that transported gunpowder for E. I. du Pont out of Wilmington, Delaware. A silver gelatin copy of the original portrait, said to have been...
