Nobel s Safety Powder

Nobel s Safety Powder. The name given to Dynamite at the time of its invention Ref Davis (1943), 332... 

Guhrdynamit or Dynamit No 1, also known as Nobel s Safety Powder. Explosive consisting of NG 75 absorbed on kieselguhr 255S, in-uonfoJ ky KToKpI and ns ten red in Ene-... 

Accdg to Blasters Hdbk(Ref 63, p4), Theodore Winkler an associate of A. Nobel, made in 1868 near San Francisco 3 pounds of Dynamite by mixing 1 part of Kieselguhr with 3 parts of NG. He used the facilities of Judson Sheppard Chemical Works of San Francisco and then demonstrated the strong action of this new expl by blasting boulders along the line of Bay Shore Railroad. Directly thereafter an American firm started to manuf in San Francisco NG and Dynamite with an inactive base, under the name of Nobel s Safety Powder or Giant powder No 1... 

Nokelit.. See under Swedish permissible expls Nobel s Safety Powder. Same as Guhrdynamit Novit a)TNT 60 HNDPhA 40% and b)TNT 55.7. HNDPhA 27.9 A1 powder 16.4% used for underwater explns [Ref 25b, p 107 and A. Stettbacher, Protar9, 38 41 (1943)]... 

Dynamite (Alfred Nobel) Nobel mixes clay with nitroglycerin in a one-to-three ratio to create dynamite (Nobel s Safety Powder), an explosive the ignition of which can be controlled using Nobel s own blasting cap. He goes on to patent more than three hundred other inventions and devotes part of the fortune he gained from dynamite to establish and fund the Nobel Prizes. 

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