The Rise and Progress of the British Explosives IndustryEdward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts Whittaker, 1909 - 418 pages |
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The Rise and Progress of the British Explosives Industry Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts Affichage du livre entier - 1909 |
The Rise and Progress of the British Explosives Industry Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts Affichage d'extraits - 1909 |
The Rise and Progress of the British Explosives Industry Tom Gregorie Tullock Aucun aperçu disponible - 2013 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
acid Admiralty Ammonite ammonium nitrate Andwerp appointed April Ardeer August barrels of powder Bickford black powder blasting gelatine British carriage cartridge charge Charles Colonel Comm contract Cordewell cordite corn powder Council Curtis's and Harvey delivered detonating Duke dynamite East India Electric Elizabeth Engines England erected Explosives Company factory facture Faversham fired fireworks Forsyth fulminate of mercury Fuses George guncotton gunpowder maker Hist House Ibid invention James John Evelyn July June King King's lasts of powder letter licence London magazines Majesty Majesty's manufacture of gunpowder March Messrs nitrate nitro-glycerine nitrocellulose Nobel obtained Office Ordnance Patent Roll percussion cap persons Petition petitioner petre powder makers Privy PRODUCTS Richard rockets Royal Laboratory S. P. Dom S. P. Henry VIII Safety-Fuse saltpetre and gunpowder ships shot Sir John Smokeless Powder Stowmarket sulphur supply Surrey Thomas Tower Tower of London Waltham Abbey warrant William Woolwich
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Page 94 - Doctor do offer of an instrument to sink ships ; he tells me that which is more strange, that something made of gold, which they call in chymistry Aurum fulminans, a grain, I think he said, of it put into a silver spoon and fired, will give a blow like a musquett, and strike a hole through the spoon downward, without the least force upward ; and this he can make a cheaper experiment of, he says, with iron prepared.
Page 139 - Parliament no dispensation by non obstante of or to any statute or any part thereof shall be allowed, but that the same shall be held void and of no effect, except a dispensation be allowed of in such statute, and except in such...
Page 154 - Act, and be liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding one year, under the following circumstances or any of them : First.
Page 43 - ... of two or three times the weight of its natural ball, or round shot: and thus a small ship might discharge shot as heavy as those of the greatest now made use of.
Page 139 - Majesty, and by the Lordes Spirituall and Temporall, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authoritie of the same, That...
Page 149 - ... the tide or bad weather), within the following limits ; (that is to say, within the cities of London or Westminster, or within three miles of either of them, or within any city, borough, or market town of Great Britain, or one mile of the...
Page 147 - ... to the House of Correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding three calendar months...
Page 87 - A Secretary of State, on being satisfied that any explosive is or is likely to become dangerous, may, by order, of which notice shall be given in such manner as he may direct, prohibit the use thereof in any mine, or in any class of mines, either absolutely or subject to conditions...
Page 150 - King George the Third, intituled " An Act to regulate the making, keeping, and carriage of gunpowder within " Great Britain, and to repeal the laws heretofore made for any of those
Page 149 - ... be in barrels close joined and hooped, without any iron about them, and so secured that no part of the gunpowder be scattered in the passage ; and each barrel shall contain no more than 1 00 Ibs.