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Author : Thomas W. Corbin
language : en
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Release Date : 2022-09-04
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Author : Thomas Corbin
language : en
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Release Date : 2017-07-12
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Most people are afraid of the word explosion and shudder with apprehension at the mention of dynamite. The latter, particularly, conjures up visions of anarchists, bombs, and all manner of wickedness. Yet the time seems to be coming when every farmer will regard explosives, of the general type known to the public as dynamite, as among his most trusty implements. It is so already in some places. In the United States explosives have been used for years, owing to the exertions of the Du Pont Powder Company, while Messrs Curtiss' and Harvey, and Messrs Nobels, the great explosive manufacturers, are busy introducing them in Great Britain.It will perhaps be interesting first of all to see what this terror-striking compound is. One essential feature is the harmless gas which constitutes the bulk of our atmosphere, nitrogen. Ordinarily one of the most lazy, inactive, inert of substances, this gas will, under certain circumstances, enter into combination with others, and when it does so it becomes in some cases the very reverse of its usual peaceful, lethargic self. It is as if it entered reluctantly into these compounds and so introduced an element of instability into them. It is like a dissatisfied partner in a business, ready to break up the whole combination on very slight provocation.And it must be remembered that an explosive is simply some chemical compound which can change suddenly into something else of much larger volume. Water, when boiled, increases to about 1600 times its own volume of steam, and if it were possible to bring about the change suddenly water would be a fairly powerful explosive. Coal burnt in a fire changes, with oxygen from the atmosphere, into carbonic acid gas, and the volume of that latter which is so produced is much more than that of the combined volumes of the oxygen and coal. When the burning takes place in a grate or furnace we see nothing at all like an explosion, for the simple reason that the change takes place gradually. That is necessarily so since the coal and oxygen are only in contact at the surface of the former. If, however, we grind the coal to a very fine powder and mix it well with air, then each fine particle is in contact with oxygen and can burn instantly. Hence coal-dust in air is an explosive. It used to be thought that colliery accidents were due entirely to the explosion of methane, a gas which is given off by the coal, but it has of recent years dawned upon people that it is the coal-dust in the mine which really does the damage. The explosion of methane stirs up the dust, which then explodes. The former is comparatively harmless, but it acts as the trigger or detonator which lets loose the force pent up in the innocent-looking coal-dust. Hence the greatest efforts in modern collieries are bent towards ridding the workings of dust or else damping it or in some other way preventing it from being stirred up into the dangerous state.So the essential feature of any explosive is oxygen and something which will burn with it. If it be a solid or liquid the oxygen must be a part of the combination or mixture, for it cannot get air from the surrounding atmosphere quickly enough to explode; and, moreover, it is generally necessary that explosives should work in a confined space away from all contact with air. So oxygen, of necessity, must be an integral part of the stuff itself. But when oxygen combines with anything it usually clings rather tenaciously to its place in the compound and is not easily disturbed quickly, and that is where the nitrogen seems to find its part. It supplies the disturbing element in what would otherwise be a harmonious combination, so that the oxygen and the burnable substances readily split up and form a new combination, with the nitrogen left out.
Marvels Of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account In Non Technical Language Of The Invention Of Guns Torpedoes Submarine Mines Up To Date Smelting Freezing Colour Photography And Many Other Recent Discoveries Of Science
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Author : Thomas W. Corbin
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
Marvels Of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account In Non Technical Language Of The Invention Of Guns Torpedoes Submarine Mines Up To Date Smelting Freezing Colour Photography And Many Other Recent Discoveries Of Science written by Thomas W. Corbin and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Fiction categories.
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Author : Thomas W. Corbin
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-09-16
Marvels Of Scientific Invention written by Thomas W. Corbin and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-16 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Excerpt from Marvels of Scientific Invention: An Interesting Account in Non Technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarines Mines, Up-to-Date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and Many Other Recent Discoveries of Science It will perhaps be interesting first of all to see what this terror-striking compound is. One essential feature is the harmless gas which constitutes the bulk of our atmosphere, nitrogen. Ordinarily one of the most lazy, inactive, inert of substances, this gas Will, under certain circumstances, enter into combination with others, and when it does SO it becomes in some cases the very reverse of its usual peaceful, lethargic self. It is as if it entered reluctantly into these compounds and so introduced an element of instability into them. It is like a dissatisfied partner in a business, ready to break up the whole combination on very Slight provocation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Marvels Of Modern Science
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Author : Paul Severing
language : en
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
Release Date : 2005-03
Marvels Of Modern Science written by Paul Severing and has been published by 1st World Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03 with Science categories.
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The purpose of this little book is to give a general idea of a few of the great achievements of our time. Within such a limited space it was impossible to even mention thousands more of the great inventions and triumphs which mark the rushing progress of the world in the present century; therefore, only those subjects have been treated which appeal with more than passing interest to all. For instance, the flying machine is engaging the attention of the old, the young and the middle-aged, and soon the whole world will be on the wing. Radium, "the revealer," is opening the door to possibilities almost beyond human conception. Wireless Telegraphy is crossing thousands of miles of space with invisible feet and making the nations of the earth as one. 'Tis the same with the other subjects, - one and all are of vital, human interest, and are extremely attractive on account of their importance in the civilization of today. Mighty, sublime, wonderful, as have been the achievements of past science, as yet we are but on the verge of the continents of discovery. Where is the wizard who can tell what lies in the womb of time? Just as our conceptions of many things have been revolutionized in the past, those which we hold to-day of the cosmic processes may have to be remodeled in the future.
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Author : Thomas W. Corbin
language : en
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Release Date : 2012-01-31
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Marvels Of Scientific Invention is An Intriguing Account In Non-Technical Language Of The Invention Of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarines Mines, Up-To-Date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, And Many Other Discoveries Of Science in the 19th Century. Contents: Digging With Dynamite, Measuring Electricity, The Fuel Of The Future, Some Valuable Electrical Processes, Machine-Made Cold, Scientific Inventions At Sea, The Gyro-Compass, Torpedoes And Submarine Mines, Gold Recovery, Intense Heat, An Artificial Coal Mine, The Most Striking Invention Of Recent Times, How Pictures Can Be Sent By Wire, A Wonderful Example Of Science And Skill, Scientific Testing And Measuring, Colour Photography, How Science Aids The Stricken Collier, How Science Helps To Keep Us Well, Modern Artillery
100 Greatest Science Inventions Of All Time
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Author : Kendall Haven
language : en
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Release Date : 2006
100 Greatest Science Inventions Of All Time written by Kendall Haven and has been published by Libraries Unlimited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Profiles one hundred inventions in chronological order, from roads and the screw to the World Wide Web and cloning, describing how each was invented, what people did before its advent, and what has happened since, and provides further reading lists.
Marvels Of Science
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Author : Marion Karl Wisehart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
Marvels Of Science written by Marion Karl Wisehart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with Industrial arts categories.
The Boy S Book Of Inventions
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Author : Ray Stannard Baker
language : en
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Release Date : 1899
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Author : Ray Stannard Baker
language : en
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Release Date : 2015-08-04
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Excerpt from The Boy's Book of Inventions: Stories of the Wonders of Modern Science The Boy's Book of Inventions: Stories of the Wonders of Modern Science was written by Ray Stannard Baker in 1899. This is a 357 page book, containing 41873 words and 116 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.