Way to Make a Dynamite Shell Claimed by Inventor

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Efforts of inventors to develop a dynamite-loaded artillery shell have always been foiled by the sensitivity of the explosive, which would not withstand the shock of its abrupt discharge. Now an Australian has patented a double shell with dynamite in its inner container. Fired from a rifled, gun or howitzer, the shell spins, and this forces some of the nitroglycerin in the dynamite to the surface of the inert absorbent of the dynamite, where the slightest impact will explode it.

Title (Dublin Core): Way to Make a Dynamite Shell Claimed by Inventor
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Explosives and land mines
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): Way to Make a Dynamite Shell Claimed by Inventor
Language (Dublin Core): Eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): World War II
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1942-04
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Mechanics, vol. 77, n. 4, 1942
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 76
Rights (Dublin Core): Public domain
Source (Dublin Core): Google books
References (Dublin Core): Australia
Archived by (Dublin Core): Enrico Saonara

Item sets: Wars of Wonders; full text

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