Box car carrying dynamite made by Emporium Powder Manufacturing Company smashed into Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive tender at Emporium, Pennsylvania.
Tunnel leads into one of the ten mound shaped buildings which form manufacturing area at DuPont's dynamite plant near Martinsburg, West Virginia. Concrete walls are twice as thick as foundation of well built home. Air conditioning is new feature of...
Typed caption: "This is an Atlas mixing machine, used in the manufacture of dynamite at Repauno c. 1895. The box in the foreground contains inert ingredients which are place in the trough. Nitroglycerin us added from the containers shown on the...
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.
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...
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.
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....
