Blasting: A Handbook for the Use of Engineers, and Others Engaged in Mining, Tun Quarrying, Ellin (Classic Reprint)

During the many years in which I have been actively engaged in the manufacture of explosives and in mining work, I have frequently been asked to write a short handbook for the assistance of practical men who have to conduct blasting operations in mining and civil engineering work. Since the older methods of Blasting have been altered by the introduction of dynamite, the descriptions of the-various operations conducted throughout the world have had to be sought for in scattered periodicals, not readily accessible to the general reader. No trustworthy book on the subject exists; generally, the experiences of others, especially those of the A ustro-H ungarian Technical and Administrative Military Committee, having been simply copied, and not unfrequently misunderstood. I therefore venture to think that the following pages, now at length laid before the Profession, will be found useful as a practical contribution to the subject. What I have aimed at is to offer to engineers actually engaged in conducting blasting operations such information as may be depended upon.
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