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Seconds to snap : One explosive day. A family destroyed. My descent into anorexia. / Tina McGuff with Kathy Weitz.
McGuff, TinaDate: 2015
Ephemera
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Bone & fat bucket : save them for munitions / Domestic Savings Committee.
Date: [between 1914 and 1918?]
Digital Images
Online
Human chromosomes in a cancer cell
Paul J.Smith &Rachel Errington
Pictures
Online
Nettuno, Italy: an explosion of black smoke in a field. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
Date: 1918-1937Reference: 564053i
Pictures
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Two Irishmen in Brighton open a smuggled barrel of what they think is whiskey with a red-hot poker, but it contains gunpowder and explodes. Etching after Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: Jany. 12. 1808Reference: 31531i
Archives and manuscripts
Torriano, Charles Edward (1833-1908)
Torriano, Charles Edward, 1833-1908Date: 1850-1859Reference: MS.4820
Ephemera
The dreadful explosion at Hounslow : when the following persons lost their lives:- Robert Glazier, Henry Strange, Robert Goddard.
Date: [1845?]
Books
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Specification of John Allen : construction of boilers : apparatus for drying malt, etc. : propelling vessels : applying explosive force of gunpowder to obtain motive power.
Allen, John.Date: 1854
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Report of experiments on gunpowder, made at Washington arsenal, in 1843 and 1844 / by Alfred Mordecai.
Mordecai, Alfred, 1804-1887.Date: 1845
Pictures
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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
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250 A.R.P. questions answered : (high-explosive bombs, incendiary bombs, war gases and first aid) / by R.F. Reynolds, R.D. Wormald and J.M. Young.
Reynolds, R. F.Date: 1941
Archives and manuscripts
Artillery: 16th cent.
Date: 1559Reference: MS.87
Archives and manuscripts
Feuer-Buech
Date: 1584Reference: MS.272
Books
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The necessity of a constant readiness for death. A discourse, preached at Hartford North-Meeting-House, May 25th, 1766. Occasioned by that alarming providence, the sudden demolition of the school-house, by gun-powder; whereby about thirty persons were wounded, six of who are since dead. By the Reverend John Devotion, A.M. of Say-Brook; providentially present. [Five lines of quotations]
Devotion, John, 1730-1802.Date: [1766]
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Proceedings of the Symposium on chemical process hazards with special reference to plant design, Manchester, 29-31 March, 1960.
Symposium on Chemical Process Hazards with Special Reference to Plant Design (1960 : Manchester, England)Date: [1960]
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Specification of Charles Samuel Walker and Robert Hoyle : apparatus for consuming smoke, and preventing the explosion of steam boilers.
Walker, Charles Samuel.Date: 1860
Ephemera
Terrible explosion of D'Ernest's fire-work manufactory : Monday, Feb. 28th : four lives lost : Sunday, Maarch 13, 1842.
Date: 1842
Archives and manuscripts
Gerbier, Sir Balthazar (1591?-1667)
Gerbier, Sir Balthazar, 1591?-1667Date: 1654Reference: MS.2505
Books
Handbuch der Feuer- und Explosionsgefahr : chemische, physikalische und technische Grundlagen zur Verhütung und Bekämpfung der Feuer- und Explosionsgefahr / von Ernst von Schwartz.
Schwartz, Ernst von.Date: 1936
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An experimental study on air blast injuries / by Carl-Johan Clemedson.
Clemedson, Carl-Johan.Date: 1949
Ephemera
Dreadful explosion of the fire-work manufactory of Mons. D'Ernst, in Doughty Street, Lambeth Walk, and loss of four lives : London: Sunday, Maarch 13, 1842.
Date: 1842
Books
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Les explosifs et les explosions au point de vue medico-legal / par P. Brouardel.
Date: 1897
Pictures
Photograph of a shirtless man wearing unbuttoned jeans.
Date: [between 1987 and 2000]Reference: 3304945i
Part of: "Fully Exposed"; The Commerical Explosion, 1980-1990s.
Books
Strangers in paradise. Vol. 3, no.67. / Terry Moore, story and art.
Moore, Terry, 1954-Date: 2004
Ephemera
The sorrowful and weeping lamentation of the wives and orphans of the unhappy men who lost their lives at the tremendous blowing up of the Canal Company's warehouse, et Nottingham.
Date: [1818]

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Seconds to snap : One explosive day. A family destroyed. My descent into anorexia. / Tina McGuff with Kathy Weitz.

Bone & fat bucket : save them for munitions / Domestic Savings Committee.

Human chromosomes in a cancer cell

Nettuno, Italy: an explosion of black smoke in a field. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).

Two Irishmen in Brighton open a smuggled barrel of what they think is whiskey with a red-hot poker, but it contains gunpowder and explodes. Etching after Cruikshank.

Torriano, Charles Edward (1833-1908)

The dreadful explosion at Hounslow : when the following persons lost their lives:- Robert Glazier, Henry Strange, Robert Goddard.

Specification of John Allen : construction of boilers : apparatus for drying malt, etc. : propelling vessels : applying explosive force of gunpowder to obtain motive power.

Report of experiments on gunpowder, made at Washington arsenal, in 1843 and 1844 / by Alfred Mordecai.

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

250 A.R.P. questions answered : (high-explosive bombs, incendiary bombs, war gases and first aid) / by R.F. Reynolds, R.D. Wormald and J.M. Young.

Artillery: 16th cent.

Feuer-Buech

Proceedings of the Symposium on chemical process hazards with special reference to plant design, Manchester, 29-31 March, 1960.

Specification of Charles Samuel Walker and Robert Hoyle : apparatus for consuming smoke, and preventing the explosion of steam boilers.

Terrible explosion of D'Ernest's fire-work manufactory : Monday, Feb. 28th : four lives lost : Sunday, Maarch 13, 1842.

Gerbier, Sir Balthazar (1591?-1667)

Handbuch der Feuer- und Explosionsgefahr : chemische, physikalische und technische Grundlagen zur Verhütung und Bekämpfung der Feuer- und Explosionsgefahr / von Ernst von Schwartz.

An experimental study on air blast injuries / by Carl-Johan Clemedson.

Dreadful explosion of the fire-work manufactory of Mons. D'Ernst, in Doughty Street, Lambeth Walk, and loss of four lives : London: Sunday, Maarch 13, 1842.

Les explosifs et les explosions au point de vue medico-legal / par P. Brouardel.

Photograph of a shirtless man wearing unbuttoned jeans.

Strangers in paradise. Vol. 3, no.67. / Terry Moore, story and art.

The sorrowful and weeping lamentation of the wives and orphans of the unhappy men who lost their lives at the tremendous blowing up of the Canal Company's warehouse, et Nottingham.