Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 485
m out with compressed air. So yousee we can let the powder explode without in-juring anybody except the magazine tender. Butthe men outside would not be in danger, and thebusy city two hundred and fifty feet above wouldscarcely know that anything had happened. But, said Will, who had been by no… … THE DOORWAY LEADING INTO THE DYNAMITE MAGAZINE. pound of dynamite? But here is the difference,gasolene combustion is comparatively slow, whilethe chief value of dynamite is the suddenness ofits explosion. It is chiefly that first explosionwave that we must guard against, and so wemake it dash…
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