jacob barab (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 22 pp., horizontal crease to paper cover, minor ownership markings, else text clean and binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. 8vo, 169 pages, pyroxylin coated fabric containing Hercules nitrocellulose ( a cottonlike polymer derived from cellulose treated with sulfuric and nitric acids, and used in the manufacture of explosives - so what would happen if I put a match to the covers???). Prreface by T. W. Bacchus, who founded the Hercules Powder Company in 1912 - and sold it for ten million dollars in 1914 ! A scientific and practical treatment of high explosives. Amply illustrated with photogravures, charts, sketches, Barab wrote several books on mining and explosives, and patented an improvement in nitroglycols.