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Dynamite Stories and some Interesting Facts about Explosives by Hudson Maxim
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DYNAMITE STORIES & some interesting facts about explosives. A reprise of the classic work by Hudson Maxim who was on the cutting edge of new discoveries of explosives and tells the tales. Black powder was being replaced by nitro and smokeless powders. This is the perfect gift for the pyro who needs a break from traditional tutorial literature.
CONTENTS:
- Some Interesting Facts About Explosives
- The Forgotten Bit Of Fulminate
- Hell Swazey Breaks Up The Dance
- The Poet's Uplift
- How Bender Lowered The Price Of Dynamite
- Foolhardy Kruger
- Lines To A Lady
- He Separated
- The Well-Digger's Casualties
- The Rival Editors
- "The Passing Of Jeopardy"
- Discharging Pat
- The Involuntary Attack
- The Forgotten Precaution
- The Fatal Hat
- A Drop Too Much
- A Close Call
- A Pickaninny's Treasure Trove
- Not To Be Buncoed
- Sir Frederick's Bonfire
- The Irreverent Native
- At Folly's Mercy
- The Watchman's Double Vision
- The Zealous Fool
- Some Lively Cotton Waste
- Saving Time
- Hoisted With His Own Petard
- The Broken Scale
- The Singular Good Fortune Of A Gentle Englishman
- The Match At The Peep-Hole
- The Flask Of Liquor
- Impertinence Punished
- Curiosity's Uplift
- Proud Even Unto Death
- The Dog That Ate Dynamite
- Insecure Security
- The Loaded Chinaman
- Living Bombs
- Ships That Passed In The Night
- A Wild Projectile
- The Bomb And The Train
- The Drunken Messenger
- Nitroglycerine By Automobile
- Jets Of Blue
- The Wisdom Of Retreat
- The Race With Death
- The Missing Vessel
- The Indomitable Poet
- Scattered
- A Lively Dead One
- Incidents In The Development Of Motorite
- The Mule Gun
- How Gussie Got Loaded
- Dynamite's Freak
- Explosive Vagaries
- The Turkey That Went To Bed
- Bill Bennett, Detective
- Winning The Ox
- A Duel To The Death
- The Bewitched Flintlock
- When He Shirked
- The Elevation Of Womanhood
- Didn't Know It Was Loaded
- The Wrong Tap
- "Whence All But Him Had Fled"
- Breaking His Nerve
- The Grizzly Cannon Ball
- The Joke Was Not On The Chinamen
- Chinese Fireworks
- The Happening Of The Unexpected
- When The Wash Vanished
- The Frightened Fisherman
- Brown, The Gunner
- The Colonel Was Provoked
- When The Darkies Turned Pale
- The Dog That Was A Real Mascot
- Weary Willie's Discomfiture
- Lo, The Poor Indian!
- A Day With Hudson Maxim
- Explosion of nitroglycerin - Circumstances attending an -- which occurred in the Final Washing House of the factory of the Explosives and Chemical Products, Ltd., at Bramble Island, Essex, on the 11th March, 1913.
- The Annual Report (Nineteenth) of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Explosives for 1894
- Explosion of Nitroglycerin ; Circumstances attending an --, in the Separating House of the Factory of Messrs. Curtis and Harvey, Ltd., at Cliffe, Kent, on Feb. 18, 1904
- FBI Blasts Nitro & Home Around It
- Nitroglycerine and NG Explosives
- Nitroglycerin - Ascanio Sobrero
- Explosion of Nitroglycerin; Circumstances attending an -- which occurred in the Precipitating and Final Washing Houses of the Factory of the National Explosives Co., Ltd., at Upton Towans, Hayle, Cornwall, on Jan. 5, 1904
- Explosion of Nitroglycerin; Circumstances attending an which occurred in the Final Washing House of the Factory of the Cotton Powder Co., Ltd., at Upleas Marshes, Faversham, on Nov. 9, 1903.
- Frozen Nitroglycerin
- Dynamite And Substitutes
- Cardiac Arrest in an Explosives Factory Worker Due to Withdrawal From Nitro-glycerin Exposure
- Accident which occurred in E., known as a "Packing House " in the " Dynamite System" of the Cape Explosives Works at Somerset West, on the 3rd January, 1913 Report on an -
- A randomised, prospective, double-blind, placebo controlled trial of glyceryl trinitrate ointment in treatment of anal fissure
Code No. 015612, 125 pages, $38.00
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Pyrotechnics
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