Excerpt from The Manufacture of Explosives, Vol. 1: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the History, the Physical and Chemical Properties and the Manufacture of Explosives
Whilst this book was being written, a series of anarchist outrages in various parts of Europe led many Governments to seriously consider the necessity of special legislation to prevent their recurrence. I therefore had also to consider whether the publication of a new book on explosives might not at the time be ill-advised; but the more I thought the matter over, the clearer it became to me that delay was quite unnecessary.
This book is written for manufacturers and experts alone, and anarchists, and such like, will find nothing new in it. On the other hand, there are some fifty thousand workmen employed in Europe alone in the manufacture of explosives, besides many hundreds of thousands to whom the production of good, safe, and cheap explosives is a vital question. It is in the interest of these that, both as an expert and as a citizen, I have written this book.
The first really good handbook appeared in Germany in 1874. It was in two parts - Gunpowder, by Dr. G. Upmann, and Explosive Bodies and Fireworks, by Dr. E. von Meyer. In 1878 this work was translated into French, and many valuable additions made to it by Mr. E. Desortiaux, and for a very long time these two books were the only available trustworthy sources of information on explosives.
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