A Handbook on Modern Explosives: A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture and Use of Dynamite, Gun-cotton, Nitro-glycerine, and Other Explosive Compounds, Including Collodion-cotton

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C. Lockwood and son, 1897 - 406 páginas
 

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