Dynamite products starts at the acid area in the Repauno, New Jersey plant of the DuPont Company, where operator is shown hoeing finely ground sodium nitrate, an essential raw material, into the endless chain loader.
A sluggish stream, blocked by silt, vegetation and roots, was released quickly through ditching a 225 foot long, channel engineers. It required 100 pounds of dynamite for a job that would have taken a long time by dragline. The demonstration was in...
Box car carrying dynamite made by Emporium Powder Manufacturing Company smashed into Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive tender at Emporium, Pennsylvania.
Box car carrying dynamite made by Emporium Powder Manufacturing Company smashed into Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive tender at Emporium, Pennsylvania.
Box car carrying dynamite made by Emporium Powder Manufacturing Company smashed into Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive tender at Emporium, Pennsylvania.
Box car carrying dynamite made by Emporium Powder Manufacturing Company smashed into Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive tender at Emporium, Pennsylvania.
This stream, near Oxford, Iowa was filled with silt, surface vegetation and roots forcing it to meander through the district. Because of sluggish drainage, heavy rain would raise the stream over an adjoining road. Under the direction of DuPont...
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.
In this Virginia coal mine the permissible explosive is being loaded into the drill holes. The room has been top cut and sheared on one side of the center to relieve the blast. The room is approximately 10 feet high, 20 feet wide and the blast will...
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 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...
Site of New York's $35,000,000 nine area Coliseum-Convention Hall-where contractors carved out the foundations for the Convention Hall, a 20 story office building and two 14 story apartment houses-removing literally acres of bedrock in the process.
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,...
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...
