Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 584
s been estimated that fulminate ofmercury, when exploded in contact with a body,exerts a pressure of more than half a millionpounds to the square inch. In other words, thefulminate used as a fuse strikes the high explosivea blow with a force of half a million pounds tothe square inch. The explosive… … A NEAR VIEW OF HUGE UNDER-THE-WATER EXPLOSIONCourtesy of The Technical World Magazine. explosives suppose that shells and submarinemines are dangerous in themselves and that tohandle any of them would be courting death. Asa matter of fact, however, the fulminating, orsetting off body which is…
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