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  2. United States Gunpowder Trade Association - Wikipedia

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    The United States Gunpowder Trade Association (also known as the powder trust or the gunpowder trust) was a trade association of major American powder manufacturers which coordinated pricing for powder from 1872 to 1912. [1] [2] The cartel was dissolved through a Supreme Court ruling in 1912, which found it guilty of violating the Sherman ...

  3. Confederate Powderworks - Wikipedia

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    More than 2.75 million pounds of first-quality gunpowder (a majority of the powder used by the Confederacy) were produced before its closure in 1865. [5] By comparison, Union gunpowder manufacture was distributed among many mills, with the larger Hazard Powder Company of Connecticut producing 40% of the annual production of 8.4 million pounds. [6]

  4. DuPont - Wikipedia

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    The company began as a manufacturer of gunpowder, as du Pont noticed that the industry in North America was lagging behind Europe. The company grew quickly, and by the mid-19th century had become the largest supplier of preppy gunpowder to the United States military , supplying one-third to one-half the powder used by the Union Army during the ...

  5. Laflin & Rand Powder Company - Wikipedia

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    Laflin & Rand's Passaic Powder Mills in Passaic County, New Jersey. Laflin & Rand Powder Company was a gunpowder and early smokeless powder manufacturer notable for producing the smokeless powder used by United States Army infantry rifles from 1896 to 1908, which included the period of development of the M1903 Springfield rifle and .30-06 Springfield cartridge.

  6. Gunpowder - Wikipedia

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    The term black powder was coined in the late 19th century, primarily in the United States, to distinguish prior gunpowder formulations from the new smokeless powders and semi-smokeless powders. Semi-smokeless powders featured bulk volume properties that approximated black powder, but had significantly reduced amounts of smoke and combustion ...

  7. Smokeless powder - Wikipedia

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    Finnish smokeless powder. Smokeless powder is a type of propellant used in firearms and artillery that produces less smoke and less fouling when fired compared to black powder. Because of their similar use, both the original black powder formulation and the smokeless propellant which replaced it are commonly described as gunpowder.

  8. Eleutherian Mills - Wikipedia

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    Original DuPont powder wagon. The first domestic supplies of high-quality gunpowder in the U.S. were made here. [9] By the end of 1804, DuPont had sold 39,000 pounds of powder; the following year, sales tripled. The federal government and John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company became regular customers.

  9. Hercules Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Hercules, Inc. was a chemical and munitions manufacturing company based in Wilmington, Delaware, United States, incorporated in 1912 as the Hercules Powder Company following the breakup of the DuPont explosives monopoly by the U.S. Circuit Court in 1911. [1]