History of the Explosives Industry in America / Arthur Pine Van Gelder, Hugo Schlatter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gelder, Arthur Pine Van, author.

Schlatter, Hugo, author.

Contributor:

Munroe, Charles E.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1927]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A narrative history of the explosives industry in the United States and Canada that discusses the technical development of the industry as well its commercial history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Introduction

Part I. Black Powder

1. Early History of Gunpowder

2. Colonial Powder Mills

3. Powder Mills During the Revolution

4. From the Beginning of the 19th Century to the Civil War

5. The Civil War

6. From the Civil War to 1912

7. E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Company

8. Laflin & Rand Powder Company

9. Other Early Members of the Gunpowder Trade Association

10. West Coast Powder Mills

11. Other American Black Powder Mills

12. From 1913 to the Present

II. Nitroglycerine and Dynamite

1. Introduction and Development of High Explosives for Blasting

2. Manufacture and Use of Nitroglycerine in America

3. The Dynamite Industry in America

4. The Atlas-Giant Group

5. The Hercules Group

6. The duPont Group

7. Other High Explosives Companies in Existence July 1, 1925

8. Miscellaneous High Explosives Companies, Not in Existence on July 1, 1925

9. American High Explosives Companies Outside of the United States

Part III. Blasting Supplies

1. Blasting Supplies

Part IV. Smokeless Powder

1. Introductory Historical Development

2. Smokeless Powder in the United States

3. The American E. C. & Schultze Powder Company

4. Smokeless Powder in the United States Navy

5. Smokeless Powder in the United States Army

6. California Powder Works

7. Leonard Smokeless Powder Company, American Smokeless Powder Company, Laflin & Rand Powder Company

8. International Smokeless Powder and Dynamite Company, International Smokeless Powder and Chemical Company

9. E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Company

10. Hercules Powder Company

11. Miscellaneous War Developments

12. Picrate and Chlorate Gunpowders

13. Brazilian And Mexican Factories, Smokeless Powder Trends

Part V. Military Explosives

1. Military Explosives

Part VI. Explosives in the Making of America

1. Introductory

2. The Mineral Industry

3. American Engineering Projects

Appendices

I. History of the Institute of Makers of Explosives

II. Report to Committee of Safety

III. Fairmont Powder Company

IV. Small Pennsylvania Mills

V. West Coast Mills - Small California Companies

VI. Dynamite Machinery Developments

VII. Donner Lake Nitroglycerine Factory

VIII. Pioneer San Francisco Dynamite Factories

IX. Supplement to California Powder Works

X. E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Company

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231883733

0231883730

OCLC:

892873309