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Author Bown, Stephen R.

Title A most damnable invention : dynamite, nitrates, and the making of the modern world / Stephen R. Bown.

Publication Info. New York : T. Dunne Books, 2005.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  174.95 B685    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  174.95 BOWN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xiv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-257) and index.
Contents An epic quest -- Playing with fire: A thousand years of explosives -- Black powder's soul: The quest fro the elusive saltpeter -- Blasting oil and blasting cap: Alfred Nobel and the terrible power of nitroglycerin -- Construction and destruction: dynamite and the engineering revolution -- The great equalizer: explosives and social change -- Inventions, patents, and lawsuits: The golden age of explosives -- The Guano trade: The toil for Chilean saltpeter and the war of the Pacific -- The profits of dynamite: a gift to science and civilization -- Battle of the Falklands: The struggle for the global nitrate supply -- The father of the war: Fritz Haber's World-changing discovery -- Epilogue: War and the green revolution.
Subject Science -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Science -- History.
ISBN 031232913X
Standard No. 9780312329136
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