Shopping Bag Snuffs Out Fire Bomb With Salt and Pitch
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If an incendiary bomb should fall on the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia it would be smothered quickly with a mixture concocted by the mineralogical staff. The ingredients - inexpensive and effective - are ten parts of ordinary salt and one part flaked coal-tar pitch, mixed dry. Containers for the mixture are paper shopping bags taped shut with gummed paper. About 25 pounds are placed in each bag. In approaching a bomb the bag is held as a shield for the face, then dropped on the bomb which burns the paper to speed its own destruction.
- Title (Dublin Core)
- Shopping Bag Snuffs Out Fire Bomb With Salt and Pitch
- Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
- Shopping Bag Snuffs Out Fire Bomb With Salt and Pitch
- Language (Dublin Core)
- Eng
- Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
- World War II
- Date Issued (Dublin Core)
- 1942-08
- Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
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Popular Mechanics, vol. 78, n. 2, 1942
- pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
- 5
- Rights (Dublin Core)
- Public domain
- Source (Dublin Core)
- Google books
- References (Dublin Core)
- Philadelphia
- Archived by (Dublin Core)
- Enrico Saonara
