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Concept

Explosives

Images

  • Dental extraction involving drilling and electrically-detonated explosives: eight vignettes. Pen drawing by R. Bull.
  • Dental extraction involving drilling and electrically-detonated explosives: eight vignettes. Pen drawing by R. Bull.
  • The controlled explosion of an underwater mine to clear rocks in the East River between Harlem and the Bronx, New York. Wood engraving.
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Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts

    Artillery: 16th cent.

    | Date: 1559 | Reference: MS.87
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Feuer-Buech

    | Date: 1584 | Reference: MS.272
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    • Online

    The controlled explosion of an underwater mine to clear rocks in the East River between Harlem and the Bronx, New York. Wood engraving.

    | Reference: 29270i
    • Books
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    The handling of dangerous goods-- : notes on the properties of inflammatory, explosive and other dangerous compounds, and the modes of storage and transport there of, with offical classifications parliamentary enactments, particulrs of recorded accidents, etc / by H. Joshua Phillips.

    Phillips, H. Joshua. | Date: 1896
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Explosives

    | Date: 1870 | Reference: MS.1150
    Part of: Berthelot, Pierre Eugène Marcelin (1827-1907)
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