History of the Explosives Industry in America

Abstract

IN both Great Britain and the United States the explosives industry has formed one of the most important nuclei round which the powerful chemical combinations now existing in these two countries have developed. A history of the British explosives industry, edited by E. A. B. Hodgetts, was published in 1909, under the direction of the Explosives Section of the seventh International Congress of Applied Chemistry; the present publication deals with the history of the explosives industry in the United States and Canada, and to some extent in Mexico and South America. It has been written and published under the auspices of the Institute of Makers of Explosives, and the material has been collected from pioneer workers who are still living, from the records and archives of large powder companies, and “for the earlier history, more particularly the origins of the black powder business, data have been found in colonial records and local histories of towns, counties, and states.”

History of the Explosives Industry in America.

By Arthur Pine Van Gelder Hugo Schlatter. Pp. xxxviii + 1132. (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1927.) 50s. net.