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Rock Blasting / A Practical Treatise on the Means Employed in Blasting Rocks for Industrial Purposes

Chapter 76: Transcriber’s Notes
By George G. André
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A practical manual that surveys the tools, machines, and explosive compounds employed to break rock for industrial work. It describes hand and machine drills and bits, tamping and firing appliances including fuses, detonators and electric ignition, and compares gunpowder, nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine-based explosives and their effects. The text explains explosion physics, blasting principles such as lines of least resistance and economical considerations, and gives step-by-step techniques for boring, charging, and firing both on land and under water. Practical chapters present machine and hand blasting workflows, removal of dislodged rock, and illustrative case studies of tunnel and heading operations.

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Transcriber’s Notes

Inconsistent and unusual spelling, hyphenation, use of accents and lay-out have been retained, except as mentioned below.

Plates at the end of the text are linked to larger versions (not available in all formats).

There are two sets of numbered illustrations: numbered illustrations in the text, and numbered illustrations in the plates in the back of the book. Hyperlinks have been provided to the proper plate or illustration.

Calculations and tables have been copied verbatim although some contain calculation errors.

Some reference letters in the text are missing from the illustrations.

Changes made:

Tables and illustrations have been moved to between paragraphs; some of the plates have been rotated.

Some minor typographic errors have been corrected and some missing punctuation has been added silently.

Page 40: plate V changed to plate V.

Page 109: Curtiss’ and Harvey’s changed to Curtis’s and Harvey’s.

Page 166: Curtis’s and Harvey changed to Curtis’s and Harvey’s.