141 Rare Old Books on Fireworks and Explosives gunpowder pyrotechnics demolition - Instant PDF Download

THE PYROTECHNICS, FIREWORKS & EXPLOSIVES COLLECTION


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The Digital Library is proud to present this stunning virtual archive of 79 rare, vintage and hard-to-find books and documents compiled together for the first time in one unique virtual library covering all aspects of FIREWORKS, PYROTECHNICS & EXPLOSIVES.

Discover the history of fireworks and pyrotechnics. Study the composition and manufacture of fireworks and explosives throughout the ages. Explore military pyrotechnics as well as the manufacture, storage and handling of high explosives. Read instructions for rock blasting and farming techniques using dynamite, nitro-glycerine and TNT. Study historic experiments using gunpowder and smokeless powder. Explore the history, the physical and chemical properties, and the manufacture of fireworks and explosives in times gone by. The full list of titles speaks for itself....

Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely difficult to find and will provide a valuable library of reference material for anyone with an interest in the history of fireworks, explosives and pyrotechnics. The full list of titles speaks for itself!

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Full List of Books Included:

A bibliography of guns and shooting ... and to the composition and manufacture of explosives - W. Gerrare (1895)
A dictionary of explosives - J. P. Cundill (1889)
A manual of pyrotechny, or, A familiar system of recreative fire-works - G. W. Mortimer (1824)
A manual on explosives - A. Ramsey (1917)
A memoir on gunpowder - J. Braddock (1832)
A practical treatise on the fabrication of matches, gun cotton, colored fires and fulminating powders - H. Dussauce (1864)
A primer of explosives for the use of local inspectors and dealers - A. Cooper-Key (1905)
A Short Account of Explosives - A. Marshall (1917)
A system of pyrotechny - comprehending the theory and practice, with the application of chemistry, designed for exhibition and for war - J. Cutbush (1825)
A Treatise on Explosive Compounds, Machine Rock Drills and Blasting - H. S. Drinker (1883)
Advanced Technology for Pyrotechnic Mixtures and Munitions - Defense Technical Information Center (1977)
American inventions and improvements in breech-loading small arms, ..... fixed ammunition, pistols, projectiles, explosives, and other munitions of war - C. Norton (1880)
America's munitions 1917-1918 - B. Crowell (1919)
Ammunition - instructions for the naval service (1923)
Ammunition Handbook - Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Munitions Handlers - Dept of the US Army (unknown date)
Ammunition, General - United States War Dept. (1942)
Artificial fireworks Vol. 1 - J. Maskall (1785)
Artificial fireworks Vol. 2 - J. Maskall (1785)
Artificial fireworks Vol. 3 - J. Maskall (1785)
Artificial fire-works, improved to the modern practice - R. Jones (1766)
Artillery and explosives - A. Noble (1906)
Booby Traps - United States Army (1965)
Certaine vvayes for the ordering of souldiours in battelray ... and moreouer, howe to make saltpeter, gunpouder and diuers sortes of fireworkes or wilde fyre - P. Whitehorne (1573)
Chemical Theory of Gunpowder - H. Debus (1881)
Class book for the School of Musketry - E. C. Wilford (1861)
Compressed Gun Cotton for Military Use - J. P. Wisser (1886)
Demolition Materials - US Army Dept. (1946)
Description and instructions for the use of rifle and hand grenades - United States. Army. Ordnance Dept. (1917)
Dictionary of explosives - A. Marshall (1920)
Dictionary of pyrotechnics - G. Weingart (unknown date)
Die Feuerwerkerei; oder, Die Fabrikation der Feuerwerkskörper - A. Eschenbacher (1876)
Die Pyrotechnie - C. F. Ruggieri (1807)
Die Spreng und Zundstoffe - H. Kast (1921)
Die Sprengstoffe ihre Chemie und Technologie - R. Biedermann (1917)
Direct & General Support Maintenance for Military Pyrotechnics - Army Department (1995)
Direct & General Support Maintenance Manual Demolition Materials - US Dept for the Army & Navy (1996)
Du Pont farmer's handbook ; instructions in the use of dynamite for clearing land, planting and cultivating trees, drainage, ditching and subsoiling (1912)
Dupont blasters handbook - Dupont De Nemours and Company (1922 Ed.)
Dupont blasters handbook - Dupont De Nemours and Company (1923 Ed.)
Endless amusement - to which is added, A complete system of pyrotechny, or, The art of making fireworks - unknown author (1820)
Essay sur les feux d'artifice pour le spectacle et pour la guerre - J. C. Perrinet d'Orval (1745)
Experiments to Determine the Force of Fired Gunpowder - F. Benjamin (1797)
Explosibility and fire hazard of ammonium nitrate fertilizer - R. Davis (1945)
Explosives - E. Barnett (1919)
Explosives - H. Brunswig (1912)
Explosives and blasting procedures manual - R. A. Dick (1982)
Explosives and Demolitions - United States Army (1967)
Explosives and Demolitions - United States Army (1992)
Explosives and their power - M. Berthelot (1882)
Explosives in water resources - P. Manson (1985)
Explosives materials; the phenomena and theories of explosion and the classification, constitution and preparation of explosives - J. Wisser (1907)
Explosives Vol. 1 - A. Marshall (1917)
Explosives Vol. 2 - A. Marshall (1917)
Grenade warfare - notes on the training & organization of grenadiers - G. Dyson (1915)
Gunnery and explosives for field artillery officers - United States. Field Artillery Board (1911)
Hand And Rifle Grenades, Rocket, AT, HE, 2.36-Inch 1944 - US Army Dept. (1944)
Hand book of explosives - E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (1917)
Hand book of explosives for farmers, planters, ranchers - Du Pont de Nemours, E. I., powder co. (1910)
Hand grenades; a handbook on rifle and hand grenades - G. Ainslie (1917)
Handbook for seaman gunners. Catechism of Whitehead torpedoes, naval defence mine, countermine, observation mine, explosives, and electricity (1908)
Handbook of artillery - United States Army (1920)
Handbook of ordnance data (1919)
Handbook on Ammunition (1945)
High explosives - W. R. Quinan (1912)
High explosives; their manufacture, storage, handling and use - E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (1915)
High-explosive shell manufacture - D. T. Hamilton (1916)
Historical papers on modern explosives - G. W. Macdonald (1912)
History of the manufacture of explosives for the Great War, 1917-1918 - W. B. Williams (1919)
Impact sensitivity of primer explosives - R. L. Rhodes (1959)
Index to the literature of explosives Pt. 1 - C. Munroe (1886)
Index to the literature of explosives Pt. 2 - C. Munroe (1886)
Investigation of detonators and electric detonators - C. Hall (1913)
La pyrothecnie pratique, ou, Dialogues entre un amateur des feux d'artifice (1780)
Lectures on Chemistry and Explosives - C. E. Munroe (1888)
Lectures on explosives - W. MacNab (1914)
Lectures on explosives - W. Walke (1897)
Lust- Lufft- und FeuerKunst - W. A. Mayer (1680)
Lustfeuerwerkkunst; oder, Leicht fassliche und bewährte Anweisung zur Verfertigung von Lustfeuerwerken - M. Websky (1842)
Manual of explosives - a brief guide for the use of miners and quarrymen - C. De Kalb (1900)
Manual Of Explosives, Military Pyrotechnics and Chemical Warfare Agents - J. Bebie (1943)
Manuals of Chemical Technology III (Industrial Nitrogen Compounds & Explosives) - G. Martin (1915)
Manufacture of artillery ammunition - l. P. Alford (1917)
Method of investigation and test of smokeless powder for small arms and cannon - United States. Army. Ordnance Dept (1917)
Military Explosives - Department of the Army (1984)
Military explosives - United States. Army. Ordnance Dept (1919)
Military Pyrotechnics - United States War Dept. (1942)
Military pyrotechnics Vol. 2 - H. B. Faber (1919)
Military pyrotechnics Vol. 3 - H. B. Faber (1919)
Modelles, artifices de fev, et divers instrvmes de gverre - J. Boillot (1598)
Modern guns and smokeless powder - A. Rigg (1892)
Nature's Miracles - Energy and Vibration; Energy, Sound, Light, Heat, Explosives - E. Gray (1900)
New methods of testing explosives - C. Bichel (1905)
New principles of gunnery - B. Robbins (1803)
Nitrocellulose industry; a compendium of the history, chemistry, manufacture, commercial application and analysis of nitrates, acetates and xanthates of cellulose Vol. 1 - E. Worden (1911)
Nitrocellulose industry; a compendium of the history, chemistry, manufacture, commercial application and analysis of nitrates, acetates and xanthates of cellulose Vol. 2 - E. Worden (1911)
Nitro-explosives; a practical treatise concerning the properties, manufacture, and analysis of nitrated substances - P. G. Sanford (1906)
Notes on Certain Explosive Agents - W. N. Hill (1875)
Notes on Explosives, and Their Application in Torpedo Warfare - W. N. Hill (1875)
Notes on grenade warfare - US Army War College (1917)
Notes on military explosives (1st Ed.)- E. M. Weaver (1906)
Notes on military explosives (4th Ed. - revised and enlarged)- E. M. Weaver (1917)
Notes on the automatic time fuse grenade, model 1916 - US Army War College (1918)
On rendering gunpowder non-explosive - J. Ryley (1865)
On the weapons, army organisation, and political maxims of the ancient Hindus, with special reference to gunpowder and firearms - G. S. Oppert (1880)
Operators & Organizational Maintenance Manual For Grenades - US Dept for the Army & Navy (1971)
Pratique de la guerre - contenant l'vsage de l'artillerie, bombes et mortiers, feux artificiels & petards, sappes & mines, ponts & pontons, tranchées & trauaux - F. Malthus (1650)
Principles of Explosives Behavior - United States Army (1972)
Projectile weapons of war and explosive compounds - J. Scofern (1852)
Properties of powders and their action in closed chambers and in cannon - A. Brynk (1904)
Pyrotechnic Projectors - All Types - United States Army Dept. (1943)
Pyrotechnics - the history and art of firework making - A. Brock (1922)
Report of experiments on gunpowder - A. Mordecai (1845)
Report on the application of gun-cotton to warlike purposes - J. Gladstone (1863)
Researches on modern brisant nitro explosives - C. Duin (1920)
Rock blasting - G. Andre (1878)
Rock excavating and blasting - J. Cosgrove (1913)
Sketch of the mode of manufacturing gunpowder at the Ishapore mills in Bengal - W. Anderson (1862)
Smokeless powder and its influence on gun construction - J. A. Longridge (1890)
Smokeless powder, nitro-cellulose, and theory of the cellulose molecule - J. B. Bernadou (1901)
The analysis of black powder and dynamite - W. O. Snelling (1913)
The analysis of permissible explosives - C. G. Storm (1916)
The art of attack. Being a study in the development of weapons and appliances of offence, from the earliest times to the age of gunpowder - H. S. Cowper (1906)
The blasting of rock in mines, quarries, tunnels, etc; - A. W. Daw (1909)
The detonation of solid explosives - C. A. Zimmerman (1952)
The effect of hygroscopicity on the sensitivity of explosives and igniters - T. M. Gilliland (1959)
The handling of dangerous goods - notes on the properties of inflammatory, explosive and other dangerous compounds - H. J. Phillips (1896)
The history of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company (1912)
The manufacture of explosives, a theoretical and practical treatise on the history, the physical and chemical properties and the manufacture of explosives Vol. 1 - O. Guttman (1895)
The manufacture of explosives, a theoretical and practical treatise on the history, the physical and chemical properties and the manufacture of explosives Vol. 2 - O. Guttman (1895)
The modern high explosives - Nitro-glycerine and dynamite - M. Eissler (1889)
The mysteryes of nature and art conteined in foure severall tretises, the first of water workes, the second of fyer workes ... - J. Bate (1634)
The Preparation and testing of explosives - V. Bush (1946)
The pyrotechnist's companion; or, A familiar system of recreative fireworks - G. Mortimer (1852)
The pyrotechnist's treasury - the complete art of firework-making - T. Kentish (1878)
The rise and progress of the British explosives industry - E. A. Brayley (1909)
The use of explosives for agricultural and other purposes - Institute of Makers of Explosives (1917)
Theoretical researches on the effects of gunpowder and other explosives - L. Miegs (1883)
Thermal and self ignition properties of ammonium perchlorate and PETN explosive - J. Loftus (unknown date)
TNT - trinitrotoluenes and mono- and dinitrotoluenes, their manufacture and properties - G. S. Smith (1918)
Traité des feux d'artifice pour le spectacle - A. F. Frezier (1742)
Traité pratique des feux d'artifice, pour le spectacle et pour la guerre - A. M. Morel (1800)
Tri-nitro-glycerin - G. M. Mowbray (1872)
Unit Maintenance Manual for Military Pyrotechnics - Army Department (1995)


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