A Handbook on Modern Explosives: Being a Practical Treatise on the Manufacture and Application of Dynamite, Gun-cotton, Nitro-glycerine, and Other Explosive Compounds, Including the Manufacture of Collodion-cotton

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Crosby Lockwood, 1890 - 318 páginas
 

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Página 7 - LIST OF CONTENTS. I. Historical Sketch of some of the means that have been adopted for the Supply of Water to Cities and Towns. — II. Water and the Foreign Matter usually associated with it— III. Rainfall and Evaporation.— IV. Springs and the waterbearing formations of various districts.
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