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Pamphlet On The Manufacture Of Gunpowder As Carried On At The Government Factory Waltham Abbey
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Book Synopsis A Handbook of the Manufacture and Proof of Gunpowder, as Carried on at the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey, Etc by : Francis Montagu SMITH
Download or read book A Handbook of the Manufacture and Proof of Gunpowder, as Carried on at the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey, Etc written by Francis Montagu SMITH and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Handbook of the Manufacture and Proof of Gunpowder by : Francis Montagu Smith
Download or read book A Handbook of the Manufacture and Proof of Gunpowder written by Francis Montagu Smith and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Handbook of the Manufacture and Proof of Gunpowder by : Smith
Download or read book A Handbook of the Manufacture and Proof of Gunpowder written by Smith and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Never for Want of Powder by : C. L. Bragg
Download or read book Never for Want of Powder written by C. L. Bragg and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated with seventy-four color plates and fifty black-and-white photographs and drawings, Never for Want of Powder tells the story of a world-class munitions factory constructed by the Confederacy in 1861, the only large-scale permanent building project undertaken by a government often characterized as lacking modern industrial values. In this comprehensive examination of the powder works, five scholars--a historian, physicist, curator, architectural historian, and biographer--bring their combined expertise to the task of chronicling gunpowder production during the Civil War. In doing so, they make a major contribution to understanding the history of wartime technology and Confederate ingenuity. Early in the war President Jefferson Davis realized the Confederacy's need to supply its own gunpowder. Accordingly Davis selected Col. George Washington Rains to build a gunpowder factory. An engineer and West Point graduate, Rains relied primarily on a written pamphlet rather than on practical experience in building the powder mill, yet he succeeded in designing a model of efficiency and safety. He sited the facilities at Augusta, Georgia, because of the city's central location, canal transportation, access to water power, railroad facilities, and relative security from attack. As much a story of people as of machinery, Never for Want of Powder recounts the ingenuity of the individuals involved with the project. A cadre of talented subordinates--including Frederick Wright, C. Shaler Smith, William Pendleton, and Isadore P. Girardey--assisted Rains to a degree not previously appreciated by historians. This volume also documents the coordinated outflow of gunpowder and ammunition, and Rains's difficulty in preparing for the defense of Augusta. Today a lone chimney along the Savannah River stands as the only reminder of the munitions facility that once occupied that site. With its detailed reproductions of architectural and mechanical schematics and its expansive vista on the Confederacy, Never for Want of Powder restores the Augusta Powder Works to its rightful place in American lore.
Book Synopsis Pamphlet on the Manufacture of Gunpowder by : Major Fraser Baddeley
Download or read book Pamphlet on the Manufacture of Gunpowder written by Major Fraser Baddeley and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a facsimilie reproduction of the original 1857 manuscript held in the Archive of the Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey. It contains information pertaining to the historical significance of the Royal Gunpowder Mills. It is the 2nd volume in the Royal Gunpowder Mills Historical Reprint Series. For more information about the Archive, visit: http: //www.royalgunpowdermills.com/history-heritage/archives/ Description - from the Preface: Having been requested to write an Article on the Manufacture of Gunpowder for the Aide Memoire, to replace the present pages on this subject, which treats entirely of the old method pursued; I have thought that a pamphlet separately published, would be of service to those who might not wish the expense of such a large work. The different processes employed, I have endeavoured to explain as clearly and simply as possible, without going into too minute detail, or entering into the cost, &c., &c. of Ingredients, and Manufacture, it having been considered for many reasons not advisable to do so. Several Officers have visited this Establishment within the last year, and appeared to take an interest in the verbal descriptions given them by me, on witnessing the different stages of fabrication; should the perusal of this Pamphlet revive any interest they may have taken in the subject treated of, or give those who have not visited the Factory, some slight insight into the manufacture of this most important material of War, my object in writing these pages will have been more than gained. J. Fraser Baddeley, Waltham Abbey, January, 1857
Book Synopsis Gunpowder, Explosives and the State by : Brenda J. Buchanan
Download or read book Gunpowder, Explosives and the State written by Brenda J. Buchanan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gunpowder studies are still in their infancy despite the long-standing civil and military importance of this explosive since its discovery in China in the mid-ninth century AD. In this second volume by contributors who meet regularly at symposia of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), the research is again rooted in the investigation of the technology of explosives manufacture, but the fact that the chapters range in scope from the Old World to the New, from sources of raw materials in south-east Asia to the complications of manufacture in the West, shows that the story is more than the simple one of how an intriguing product was made. This volume is the first to develop the implications of the subject, not just in the sense of relating it to changing military technologies, but in that of seeing the securing of gunpowder supplies as fundamental to the power of the state and imperial pretensions.The search for saltpetre, for example, an essential ingredient of gunpowder, became a powerful engine of sea-going European trade from the early seventeenth century. Smaller states like Venice were unable to form these distant connections, and so to sustain a gunpowder army. Stronger states like France and Britain were able to do so, and became even more powerful as the demand for improved explosives fostered national strengths - leading to a development of the sciences, especially chemistry, in the former case, and of manufacturing techniques in the latter.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers by : Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers written by Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) Library and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Victoria History of the County of Essex by : Herbert Arthur Doubleday
Download or read book The Victoria History of the County of Essex written by Herbert Arthur Doubleday and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dangerous Energy by : Wayne D. Cocroft
Download or read book Dangerous Energy written by Wayne D. Cocroft and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises a national study of the explosives industry and provides a framework for identification of its industrial archaeology and social history. Few monuments of gunpowder manufacture survive in Britain from the Middle Ages, although its existence is documented. Late 17th-century water-powered works are identifiable but sparse. In the later 18th century, however, the industry was transformed by state acquisition of key factories, notably at Faversham and at Waltham Abbey.In the mid-19th century developments in Britain paralleled those in continental Europe and in America, namely a shift to production on an industrial scale related to advances in armaments technology. The urgency and large-scale demands of the two world wars brought state-directed or state-led solutions to explosives production in the 20th century. Yhe book’s concluding section looks at planning, preservation, conservation and presentation in relation to prospective future uses of these sites.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers by : Institution of Civil Engineers
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers written by Institution of Civil Engineers and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers by : Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers written by Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the library. [With] by : Institution of civil engineers
Download or read book Catalogue of the library. [With] written by Institution of civil engineers and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A bibliography of guns and shooting, by Wirt Gerrare by : William Oliver Greener
Download or read book A bibliography of guns and shooting, by Wirt Gerrare written by William Oliver Greener and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Short History of the Royal Gunpowder Factory at Waltham Abbey by : W. H. Simmons
Download or read book A Short History of the Royal Gunpowder Factory at Waltham Abbey written by W. H. Simmons and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870 by :
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Book Synopsis The Victoria History of the County of Essex by : Herbert Arthur Doubleday
Download or read book The Victoria History of the County of Essex written by Herbert Arthur Doubleday and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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