Typical US Army Fuze Detonators

Similarly to electric primers, (described in Section 4, Part E), these electric detonators may be made to fire from suitable sources of electrical energy, such as generators, batteries or charged condensers they may thus be made to fire from an electric pulse supplied by energy stored within fuze firing circuit or by an electric pulse generated within the fuze system prior to or at impact 

The electric detonator is ordinarily used to actuate a booster or booster lead (usually Tetryl). At the time of publication of NOLR 1111, which was 1952, electric detonators were used in Naval mine and torpedo firing mechanisms and to a limited extent in Army fuzes (See also Section 2, Part C, History of Development of Detonators, etc ) 

Instantaneous electric detonators described in NOLR 1111 (Ref 23, pp 4-14 to 4-19) include Navy electric detonators Mk46 Mod O Mk51 Mod O and Army detonator M36. They are shown here in Figs 1-27, 

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