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CHAPTER I.Nitro-Glycerin—Introduction of the explosive in New York, San Francisco, Lake Superior, and the Hoosac Tunnel, Massachusetts; Accidents; Reports of Engineers Thos. A. Doane, W. P. Granger and B. D. Frost, of the Manufacturer; Miners’ statement.CHAPTER II.Submarine Blasting—Erie Harbor—Dimon’s Reef, New York—Coenties Reef, N. Y.—Oil Wells, Penn.CHAPTER III.Nitro-Glycerin considered in its chemical details.CHAPTER IV.Electricity in blasting operations.CHAPTER V.The Tri-Nitro-Glycerin manufactured at the Hoosac Tunnel—How Tri-Nitro-Glycerin is made—How stored—How Gutta-Percha is purified—How the Exploders are manufactured.CHAPTER VI.Explosive mixtures.CHAPTER VII.Nitro-Glycerin patents and litigation.CHAPTER VIII.Hoosac Tunnel—Drilling by machine—Blasting with Powder—Nitro-Glycerin.DIRECTIONSFOR HANDLING AND USING TRI-NITRO-GLYCERIN.APPENDIX.A.Memoranda for Contractors.B.Over-sensitive Exploders.C.Professor Abel on effects of initial explosion on explosives.D.Car freighted with 4,800 lbs. Nitro-Glycerin off the track.E.Accidents at the Hoosac Tunnel.
Nitro-Glycerin—Introduction of the explosive in New York, San Francisco, Lake Superior, and the Hoosac Tunnel, Massachusetts; Accidents; Reports of Engineers Thos. A. Doane, W. P. Granger and B. D. Frost, of the Manufacturer; Miners’ statement.
Submarine Blasting—Erie Harbor—Dimon’s Reef, New York—Coenties Reef, N. Y.—Oil Wells, Penn.
Nitro-Glycerin considered in its chemical details.
Electricity in blasting operations.
The Tri-Nitro-Glycerin manufactured at the Hoosac Tunnel—How Tri-Nitro-Glycerin is made—How stored—How Gutta-Percha is purified—How the Exploders are manufactured.
Explosive mixtures.
Nitro-Glycerin patents and litigation.
Hoosac Tunnel—Drilling by machine—Blasting with Powder—Nitro-Glycerin.