Die Dynamite, ihre Eigenschaften und Gebrauchsweise

Abstract

THE instructive brochure published under the above title affords an interesting illustration of the widespread applications now received by those violent explosive agents, nitroglycerine and gun-cotton, the practical value of which was regarded as doubtful even twelve years ago, by all but the few who devoted themselves in-defatigably to the development of the manufacture, purification, and application of those substances. Capt. Isidor Trauzl has for some time past been intimately connected with the dynamite industry on the Continent, and is a very intelligent exponent of the properties and uses of the nitroglycerine preparations which owe their origin to the sagacity, ingenuity, and untiring labours of Alfred Nobel. The endeavours of Nobel to overcome the uncertainty and danger attending the application of nitroglycerine in its undiluted condition as an explosive agent, were eventually crowned with success by his elaboration of the plastic nitroglycerine preparations known as dynamites, of which the earliest, and that specially known as Nobel's dynamite, consists of the infusorial earth, kieselguhr, mixed with about three times its weight of nitroglycerine, which it holds absorbed, even under considerable variations of temperature, if the preparation be carefully manufactured. This material is the most violent nitroglycerine preparation now in use; it closely resembles Abel's compressed gun-cotton in explosive power as well as in regard to its action, and it is now very extensively used in all parts of the world, for mining, engineering, and other industrial purposes.

Die Dynamite, ihre Eigenschaften und Gebrauchsweise.

Von Isidor Trauzl. (Berlin: Verlag von Wiegandt, Hempel, und Parey, 1876.)