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About 100 workers were in the Los Angeles Times building at 1:07 a.m. Oct. 1, 1910. Then 16 sticks of dynamite exploded at the anti-union newspaper, and people began dying.
Part of the track where the explosion took place at Braamfontein on 19 February 1896 The crater created by the dynamite explosion (looking west) at Braamfontein on 19 February 1896. On 16 February 1896, a freight train with eight trucks of dynamite – 2300 cases of 60lb each, or about 60 tonnes – was put in a siding at Braamfontein railway ...
An 800 lb (360 kg) charge of dynamite being used for construction on the Livingstone Channel, in a photo taken between 1905 and 1920 Items portrayed in this file depicts
Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay), and stabilizers. [1] It was invented by the Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel in Geesthacht, Northern Germany, and was patented in 1867.
Twenty short tons (18,000 kg) of the island's dynamite exploded in 1906 after two men "had been shooting with a revolver" near it; while there were no deaths (and only minor injuries to the two men), windows were shattered 3 mi (4.8 km) away and the explosion was clearly audible from 85 mi (137 km) away.
Classes at Bath Consolidated School began at 8:30 a.m. Kehoe had set an alarm clock in the basement of the school's north wing which detonated the dynamite and pyrotol he had hidden there at about 8:45 a.m. [32] Rescuers heading to the scene of the Kehoe farm fire heard the explosion at the school building and turned back in that direction.
The explosive appeared to be “very old,” authorities said. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
A second outbuilding containing naphtha caught fire after about fifteen minutes and there was a second naphtha explosion, showering hundreds of gallons of the flaming liquid on the burning wreckage. [4] Engineers estimated the force of the boiler explosion as equal to 660 pounds (300 kg) of dynamite. [3]