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PROF. GALLOWAY'S brief article on dust explosions in NATURE of November 30 is very timely; but readers of it would receive the impression that the true cause of the explosion at the Tradeston Flour Mills, Glasgow, in 1872, was first made known in the report of Profs. Rankine and Macadam. This is not the case: the fact that flour-mill ex-plosions are actually dust explosions was first stated in England by Mr. Watson Smith, editor of the Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, in a letter which appeared in The Glasgow Herald on July 12, 1872, immediately after the Tradeston disaster. The priority of Mr. Watson Smith was recognised at the time by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and later (in 1882) by Sir Frederick Abel in a lecture at the Royal Institution.
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SHONK, A. Dust Explosions. Nature 88, 212–213 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/088212d0
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