Manufacturing Process of Dynamite including historic methods
Dynamite ingredients are carefully weighed and mixed for the powder lines in the dope house at the Repauno, New Jersey plant of the DuPont Company. Operator is dumping ammonium nitrate into a bin mounted on scales.
Manufacturing Process of Dynamite including historic methods
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...
Manufacturing Process of Dynamite including historic methods
Dynamite is transferred to magazine area in small, narrow gauge freight cars. After loading is complete, the brakeman hooks a dummy car between engine and full car for safety.
Jumbo, on which drills are mounted, is rolled up to working face of the tunnel. The jumbo provides mounts for the drills and working space so that a number of drills can be used at one time. On this project, 112 holes are dilled for each blast....
Manufacturing Process of Dynamite including historic methods
For safety in handling dynamite, wooden machinery and tools even to the shovel, must be used. Here an operator is filling a powder jitney with the explosives in the mix house at the Repauno, New Jersey plant of the DuPont Company.
Ripple Rock in the Seymour Narrows being exploded. In 1958, it was the largest non atomic explosion intentionally fired anywhere. There was 370,000 tons of rock shattered.
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, British Columbia. The explosive was used to blow the top off Ripple Rock, a two headed...
Repauno, New Jersey plant (historical) dynamite plant
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...
