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Miner s Squib (PSjtard de Mineurs). One of the primitive devices which was invented by Daddow in Engl in 1874 for igniting blasting expls. It consists of a tapered paper tube, about 7 inches long, filled with fine gunpowd. One end of the tube is filled with chemicals, such as milled gunpowd mixed with either sulfur or sulfur and charcoal, so as to form a sort of slow match. 

A little gunpowd is added at the end in order to facilitate ign of the slow match. When used, the squib is inserted with the slow match outward in a hole made in a charge of BkPdr blasting expl. When the match is lit, the fire burns slowly, allowing the miner time to reach a place of safety. As soon as the fire reaches the BkPdr core of the squib, it burns fiercely and then suddenly explodes, igniting the blasting expl. Instead of the paper tube, quills filled with fine BkPdr joined to a slow match, can be used... 

The first record of an infantry gun appears about 1364. It was known as a cannon-lock because it was in all aspects a small cannon mounted on a stave and was carried by a single soldier. The word lock refers to the means of ignition and here a burning ember, and later on a slow match, was applied to a touch-hole at the rear in the same way as to a cannon of the time... 

According to Marshall (Ref 2) slow match is made by boiling loose hemp cords in a dilute saltpeter soln it smoulders away at the rate of a ft in several hrs... 

To overcome the lack of mobility the slow match was developed. The match consisted of a piece of cord which had been soaked in a strong solution of potassium nitrate and then dried. When placed in the touch hole and lit, the match would smolder with a glowing end at the rate of about an inch a minute until it reached and ignited the propellant.12 Speed of ignition and dependence on weather conditions were serious disadvantages. 

To Make Slow Match.—Dissolve 1 drra. nitrate of lead in H oz. boiling water. Cut a sheet of blotting paper in six equal parts, and wet them on both sides, with a sash tool, with the solution. When dry, paste a piece all over, and upon it smoothly press another piece upon this, pasted, put a third piece and so on, till all the six form a stiff board, iky them under a heavy weight and, when dry, with a sharp knife and straight edge, cut the whole into strips a quarter of an inch broad. Four inches will burn about a quarter of an hour. Narrow tape, boiled in the solution, makes excellent slow match. 

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The experiment of the Louisiana before Fort Fisher in 1864 is one of the latest instances. Two hundred and fifteen tons of powder were stowed on board. A tier of barrels, with the upper heads removed, were covered by GO-pound canvas faKsgs. A Gomes fuse was woven through the mass. Three modes of explosion were adopted, - clock-work and percussion, candles, slow-match. The vessel was towed within 851 yards of the works, and exploded in one hour and fifty-two minutes, without doing any damage whatever to the fort. See infira. Fig. 6560. 

Slow Match or Slow Fuse (Miche lente in Fr). According to Daniel (Ref 1), it is prepd by im-... 

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