Tri-nitro-glycerine, as Applied in the Hoosac Tunnel, Submarine Blasting, etc., etc., etc.

It is seldom that any valuable invention has been brought into public use without costly litigation being entailed on the inventor; and especially is this the case in chemical d...

The Hoosac Mountain, whose summit is 2,700 feet above the sea level, is composed, according to the geologist, of mica slate, so compressed that near the West End the stratificat...

Nitro-Glycerin—Introduction of the explosive in New York, San Francisco, Lake Superior, and the Hoosac Tunnel, Massachusetts. Accidents, Reports of Engineers Thos. A. Doane, W....

Glycerin, the base of Nitro-Glycerin, is produced from most of the fixed oils and solid fats by the process of saponification, that is, by treating these fatty bodies with an al...

In the winter 1869, 1870, I received a communication from the engineer in charge, Major G. Clinton Gardiner, formerly of the United States Boundary Line Survey, concerning the h...

There are probably few of my readers who have ventured to trust themselves within a Nitro-Glycerin manufactory; the very name is sufficient to make the passer-by quicken his ste...

The laws of nature are immutable. To-day, to-morrow, forever—unchanged, unchangeable, as the great Creator himself, who established them, and it is only from scientific research...

Although half a century has passed since blasting by electricity was effected by Col. Pasley, in his submarine explosions for removing the wreck of the Royal George, at Spithead...

APPENDIX. A. Memoranda for Contractors. B. Over-sensitive Exploders. C. Professor Abel on effects of initial explosion on explosives. D. Car freighted with 4,800 lbs. Nitro-Glyc...

Nitro-Glycerin—Introduction of the explosive in New York, San Francisco, Lake Superior, and the Hoosac Tunnel, Massachusetts; Accidents; Reports of Engineers Thos. A. Doane, W....