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Table of Contents: Outlook on business; The mite that makes dynamite mighty; Characteristic pressure curves of shotgun powders; More about the frisky, risky rug; A new record in ditching with dynamite; Selling with Cellophane; Form-fitting chairs;...
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Table of Contents: Big Boom in Trapshooting; Prosperity Insurance; Popularizing a Sport Through Advertising; Trapshooting Club Secretary Blasts Cellar With Red Cross; Wasted Ammunition; National Advertising of Fabrikoid; Catskill Aqueduct an...
Table of Contents: From here to there; Get acquainted with Acele; They use the name DuPont; Ring binders are modern; American legion goes to war to save wild life; Denver's Dynamite Road; St. George goes modern; Mosquitoes routed by dynamite;...
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.
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.
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.
Into one end of the modern DuPont dynamite plant flow nitric acid, glycerin and other basic ingredients of dynamite. Each of four key steps in manufacture is carried out in a different mound, connected by specially designed conveyors like the one...
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...
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...
Dynamite containers are made of paper rolled into tubes, which are sprayed with paraffin for moisture protection. Here operator pulls cart from tunnel and drains off excess paraffin.
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.
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 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...
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...
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,...
