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The big bang: a history of explosives

By:

BROWN G I

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing, 1998Description: 256pISBN:

0750918780 (hbk.):

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Summary: A comprehensive history of explosives, which covers their diverse uses, their social and historical impact and the lives of the people involved. The advent of gunpowder is followed by the development of dynamite, guncotton, gelignite, cordite, ballistite, TNT, RDX, PETN and ANFO and finally the development of the atomic bombs.

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A comprehensive history of explosives, which covers their diverse uses, their social and historical impact and the lives of the people involved. The advent of gunpowder is followed by the development of dynamite, guncotton, gelignite, cordite, ballistite, TNT, RDX, PETN and ANFO and finally the development of the atomic bombs.

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