INDEX.
- Appliances for firing blasting charges, [42]
- Auxiliary tools, [17]
- Batteries, firing, [62]
- Beche, [21]
- Bichromate firing battery, [62]
- Bits, borer, [31]
- Blasting gear, sets of, [22]
- —— sticks, [51]
- —— subaqueous, [164]
- Borer-bits, [31]
- Boring under water, [170]
- —— the shot-holes, [128], [142]
- Bornhardt’s firing machine, [57]
- Brain’s powder, [105]
- Bull, [20]
- Cables, [53]
- Cellulose dynamite, [105]
- Charging and firing, [150]
- —— the shot-holes, [132]
- Chemical compounds, [81]
- Claying iron, [20]
- Conditions of disruption, [110]
- Connecting wires, [52]
- Cotton powder, [103]
- Darlington drill, [26]
- Detonation, [95]
- Detonators, [54]
- Dislodged rock, removal of, [154]
- Disruption, conditions of, [110]
- —— force required to cause, [107]
- Division of labour, [155]
- Drills, dimension of, [6]
- —— form of, [4]
- —— hand, [1]
- —— hardening and tempering, [10]
- —— making and sharpening, [7]
- —— sets of, [13]
- Drivings, examples of, [157]
- Dubois-François carriage, [39]
- Dynamite, [100]
- —— composition of, [87]
- Electrical firing, advantage of, [153]
- Electric fuses, [47]
- —— tension fuse, [50]
- Example of a heading, [115]
- Examples of drivings, [157]
- Explosion, force developed by, [72]
- —— heat liberated by, [67]
- —— gases generated by, [69]
- —— nature of, [64]
- Explosive agents, nature of, [76]
- Firing batteries, [62]
- —— blasting charges, appliances for, [42]
- —— by electricity, [138]
- —— machines, [55]
- —— machine, Bornhardt’s, [57]
- —— —— induction coil, [61]
- —— —— Mowbray’s, [59]
- —— —— Siemens’, [60]
- —— —— Smith’s, [58]
- —— points of the common explosive agents, [102]
- —— table for frictional electric machine, [140]
- —— the charges, [137]
- Force developed by an explosion, [72]
- —— developed by gunpowder, [88]
- —— required to cause disruption, [107]
- Fuse, safety, [45]
- Fuses, electric, [47]
- Gases generated by an explosion, [69]
- Gun-cotton, [99]
- —— constitution of, [81]
- Gunpowder, [97]
- —— composition of, [80]
- —— force developed by, [88]
- Hammers, [14]
- —— patterns of, [15]
- Hand boring, [128]
- Heading, example of, [115]
- Heat, action of, in firing, [92]
- —— liberated by an explosion, [67]
- —— measure of, [66]
- —— specific, [66]
- Hoosac Tunnel, [158]
- Induction firing coils, [61]
- Joint and bedding planes, [118]
- Jumper, [3]
- Labour, division of, [155]
- Line of least resistance, [106]
- Lithofracteur, [104]
- Machine boring, [142]
- —— rock-drills, [23]
- Machines, firing, [55]
- Means of firing the common explosive agents, [92]
- Measure of heat, [66]
- Mechanical mixture, [76]
- Mowbray’s firing machine, [59]
- Musconetcong Tunnel, [159]
- Nature of an explosion, [64]
- Nitrated gun-cotton, [103]
- Nitro-glycerine, constitution of, [86]
- Obstructions in water-courses, [178]
- Operations of rock blasting, [128]
- Preparation of subaqueous charges, [164]
- Principles of blasting, [106]
- Rammer, [20]
- Relative strength of gunpowder, gun-cotton, and dynamite, [91]
- —— —— of the common explosive agents, [88]
- Removing dislodged rock, [154]
- Rock-drill supports, [34]
- Safety Fuse, [45]
- St. Gothard Tunnel, [157]
- Schultze’s powder, [104]
- Scraper, [18]
- Shot-holes, boring, [128], [142]
- —— charging, [132]
- Siemens’ firing machine, [60]
- Silvertown firing battery, [62]
- Sledges, [14]
- —— North of England, [17]
- —— North Wales, [17]
- —— South Wales, [16]
- Smith’s firing machine, [58]
- Some properties of the common explosive agents, [97]
- Some varieties of the nitro-cellulose and the nitro-glycerine compounds, [103]
- Squibs, [44]
- Steel, hardening and tempering, [9]
- Stemmer, [20]
- Sticks, blasting, [51]
- Stretcher bar, [37]
- Subaqueous blasting, [164]
- —— charges, preparation of, [164]
- Submarine rocks, removal of, [173]
- Swab-stick, [19]
- Tamping, [121]
- Tonite, [103]
- Water, boring under, [170]
- Water-courses, obstructions in, [178]
- Waterproofing composition, [165]
- Weight of explosive in bore-hole, table of, [109]
- Wires, connecting, [52]
LONDON: PRINTED BY WM. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
Plate I.
E & F. N. Spon. London & New York.
[Large Plate I.] (81 kB)
![[Large Plate I.]](#7233234429933033255_plate01.png.id-6508232392621002435.wrap-0.html.html){kind=link}
Plate II.
E & F. N. Spon. London & New York.
[Large Plate II.] (93 kB)
![[Large Plate II.]](#7233234429933033255_plate02.png.id-3687308415211345525.wrap-0.html.html){kind=link}
Plate III.
E & F. N. Spon. London & New York.
[Large Plate III.] (107 kB)
![[Large Plate III.]](#7233234429933033255_plate03.png.id-4379465064569799308.wrap-0.html.html){kind=link}
Plate IV.
E & F. N. Spon. London & New York.
[Large Plate IV.] (135 kB)
![[Large Plate IV.]](#7233234429933033255_plate04.png.id-1641282074679064718.wrap-0.html.html){kind=link}
Plate V.
E & F. N. Spon. London & New York.
[Large Plate V.] (157 kB)
![[Large Plate V.]](#7233234429933033255_plate05.png.id-7597203484088567122.wrap-0.html.html){kind=link}
Plate VI.
E & F. N. Spon. London & New York.
[Large Plate VI.] (110 kB)
![[Large Plate VI.]](#7233234429933033255_plate06.png.id-5215991141956144429.wrap-0.html.html){kind=link}
Plate VII.
E & F. N. Spon. London & New York.
[Large Plate VII.] (115 kB)
![[Large Plate VII.]](#7233234429933033255_plate07.png.id-1113459140469477122.wrap-0.html.html){kind=link}
Plate VIII.
E & F. N. Spon. London & New York.
[Large Plate VIII.] (87 kB)
![[Large Plate VIII.]](#7233234429933033255_plate08.png.id-8335486711843617951.wrap-0.html.html){kind=link}
Plate IX.
E & F. N. Spon. London & New York.
[Large Plate IX.] (117 kB)
![[Large Plate IX.]](#7233234429933033255_plate09.png.id-7113419368643576833.wrap-0.html.html){kind=link}
Plate X.
E & F. N. Spon. London & New York.
[Large Plate X.] (135 kB)
![[Large Plate X.]](#7233234429933033255_plate10.png.id-6104093819572444254.wrap-0.html.html){kind=link}
Plate XI.
E & F. N. Spon. London & New York.
[Large Plate XI.] (98 kB)
![[Large Plate XI.]](#7233234429933033255_plate11.png.id-2910128990211396666.wrap-0.html.html){kind=link}
Plate XII.
E & F. N. Spon. London & New York.
[Large Plate XII.] (126 kB)
![[Large Plate XII.]](#7233234429933033255_plate12.png.id-6730857336819892742.wrap-0.html.html){kind=link}