[2] This effect has never been produced by the Tri-Nitro-Glycerin (“Mowbray’s”) and is another and very emphatic proof of the difference between the two preparations.
[3] Preparing for machine drilling.
[4] September 1, to 24, 5-6 month. Rate 61 feet per month.
[5] Pharmaceutical Transactions, vol. 7, 1848, p. 27, et seq.
[6] Comptes rendus, V. xxxvii, p. 947.
[7] Chemical News, March 1869, p. 151.
[8] See abstract of Prof. Barker’s affidavit, towards the close of this pamphlet.
[9] “Dynamite”—Patent No. 78,317, dated May 26, 1868, granted to Alfred Nobel, of Hamburg, Germany, assignor to Julius Bandmann, of San Francisco, California. The following is the substance of the claim: “My invention consists in combining with Nitro-Glycerin a substance which possesses a very great absorbent capacity, and which at the same time, is free from any quality which will decompose, destroy, or injure the Nitro-Glycerin, or its explosiveness. The substance which most fully meets the requirements above mentioned, so far as I know, is a certain kind of silicious earth, known under the various names of silicious marl, tripoli, rotten-stone, etc.”
[10] “Porifera Nitroleum”—Patent No. 93,753, dated Aug. 17, 1869, granted to Taliaferro P. Shaffner, of Louisville, Kentucky. The claim is as follows: “I claim a compound composed of a mixture of Nitro-Glycerin with sponge or other vegetable fibre.”
[11] “Selenitic Powder”—Patent No. 93,752, dated Aug. 17, 1869, granted to Taliaferro P. Shaffner, of Louisville, Kentucky. The claim is as follows: “I claim the combining of nitroleum or Nitro-Glycerin with plaster of Paris, or equivalent substances, in such manner as will make an explosive compound.”