Author: DU PONT DE NEMOURS EXPLOSIVES DEPARTMENT HANDBOOK:
Title: BLASTERS' HANDBOOK A Manual describing Explosives and Practical Methods using them. Prepared by the Technical Service of the Explosives Deparment. Twelfth Edition.
Description: Wilmington, Delaware, E.I. Dupont de Nemours Company Company (Inc.), [circa], 1949. Small stout 8°. Original grauned publ. cloth. [1p., preface], 453; [7 additional blank pp. for private notes and annotations]. Numerous extensively captioned monochrome images after photographs illustrating key moments of explosions bringing down big buildings, blasting tunnels and tunneling, many diagrams and comparative tabkles in text listing blast calculations, appendices, addenda, index, table of contents. English language handbook on behalf of industrial blasters and explosives to be applied. Supplies detailed information about excavations for Cellars, foundations, underground Silos, Wells and similar Pits; Old Foundations, Digging Trenches with vertical Walls, Blasting Ice Walls, Blasting and cutting Steel, Blasting open Hearth SlagPrecautions before and after Blasting, Hanging Rocks and Slides, Fumers, Misfires, Mining operations, Dont's, Fumes Classifications, selection of blasting teams, chemistry of explosives. A detailed and still important manual, compiled and published by Du Pont DemoursCompany Inc. Very fine copy.

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