6. The duPont Group

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface XI
3. Contents XV
4. Introduction XXXVII
5. Part I. Black Powder
6. 1. Early History of Gunpowder 3
7. 2. Colonial Powder Mills 29
8. 3. Powder Mills During the Revolution 38
9. 4. From the Beginning of the 19th Century to the Civil War 71
10. 5. The Civil War 107
11. 6. From the Civil War to 1912 121
12. 7. E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Company 174
13. 8. Laflin & Rand Powder Company 219
14. 9. Other Early Members of the Gunpowder Trade Association 253
15. 10. West Coast Powder Mills 282
16. 11. Other American Black Powder Mills 294
17. 12. From 1913 to the Present 304
18. II. Nitroglycerine and Dynamite
19. 1. Introduction and Development of High Explosives for Blasting 315
20. 2. Manufacture and Use of Nitroglycerine in America 375
21. 3. The Dynamite Industry in America 402
22. 4. The Atlas-Giant Group 431
23. 5. The Hercules Group 479
24. 6. The duPont Group 561
25. 7. Other High Explosives Companies in Existence July 1, 1925 618
26. 8. Miscellaneous High Explosives Companies, Not in Existence on July 1, 1925 640
27. 9. American High Explosives Companies Outside of the United States 703
28. Part III. Blasting Supplies
29. 1. Blasting Supplies 721
30. Part IV. Smokeless Powder
31. 1. Introductory Historical Development 767
32. 2. Smokeless Powder in the United States 784
33. 3. The American E. C. & Schultze Powder Company 798
34. 4. Smokeless Powder in the United States Navy 804
35. 5. Smokeless Powder in the United States Army 822
36. 6. California Powder Works 842
37. 7. Leonard Smokeless Powder Company, American Smokeless Powder Company, Laflin & Rand Powder Company 859
38. 8. International Smokeless Powder and Dynamite Company, International Smokeless Powder and Chemical Company 867
39. 9. E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Company 875
40. 10. Hercules Powder Company 893
41. 11. Miscellaneous War Developments 904
42. 12. Picrate and Chlorate Gunpowders 917
43. 13. Brazilian And Mexican Factories, Smokeless Powder Trends 924
44. Part V. Military Explosives
45. 1. Military Explosives 929
46. Part VI. Explosives in the Making of America
47. 1. Introductory 959
48. 2. The Mineral Industry 962
49. 3. American Engineering Projects 1005
50. Appendices
51. I. History of the Institute of Makers of Explosives 1083
52. II. Report to Committee of Safety 1086
53. III. Fairmont Powder Company 1088
54. IV. Small Pennsylvania Mills 1089
55. V. West Coast Mills – Small California Companies 1093
56. VI. Dynamite Machinery Developments 1094
57. VII. Donner Lake Nitroglycerine Factory 1095
58. VIII. Pioneer San Francisco Dynamite Factories 1098
59. IX. Supplement to California Powder Works 1099
60. X. E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Company 1099
61. Index 1101