Tri-nitro-glycerine, as Applied in the Hoosac Tunnel, Submarine Blasting, etc., etc., etc

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George M. Mowbray. Tri-nitro-glycerine, as Applied in the Hoosac Tunnel, Submarine Blasting, etc., etc., etc

Tri-nitro-glycerine, as Applied in the Hoosac Tunnel, Submarine Blasting, etc., etc., etc

Table of Contents

PREFACE

ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

Dimon’s Reef, New York Harbor

CHAPTER III

METHOD OF ANALYSIS

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

HOOSAC TUNNEL PROGRESS. FOR MARCH, 1872

CENTRAL SHAFT

Instructions for Handling and Using. MOWBRAY’S TRI-NITRO-GLYCERIN

APPENDIX

A. MEMORANDA FOR CONTRACTORS

B “OVER-SENSITIVE” EXPLODERS

C. PROFESSOR ABEL ON EFFECTS OF. INITIAL EXPLOSION ON EXPLOSIVES

D. NITRO-GLYCERIN CAR OFF THE TRACK

E. ACCIDENTS AT THE HOOSAC TUNNEL

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George M. Mowbray

Published by Good Press, 2021

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The above modification is a necessity to avoid the damaging influence of the moisture in the Tunnel, so disturbing in its effect on the machine. I have only to add, that we have under-way apparatus for coating and re-covering damaged insulated wires, an improvement to insure perfect explosion of the Nitro-Glycerin; the manufacture of Abel’s priming for fuse, the formula having been published by the inventor; matters of comparatively minor importance, but where so many blasts are daily occurring, involving considerable saving in cost and express charges, and securing a better article when made by the individual for his own actual use, than when made simply for sale, all tending to greater safety and certainty in firing the blasts, ameliorations that have already been submitted to and approved by your engineer in charge, who will doubtless speedily report the actual results of blasting operations.

Geo. M. Mowbray, Operative Chemist.

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