Explosives

History with a Bang

G I Brown

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The History Press Ltd
28 July 2010

True stories: discovery, historical & scientific; General & world history; Social & cultural history; Explosives technology & pyrotechnics

This entertaining and informative book tells the dramatic tale of explosives from gunpowder to the H-bomb. Laying the emphasis on the lives of the people involved, on the diverse uses of explosives and on their social and historical impact, the author relates a story of remarkable international and human endeavour. Many of those involved - Roger Bacon, Guy Fawkes, Alfred Nobel, Robert Oppenheimer - are famed worldwide; others, such as C F Schonbein, William Bickford, Sir Frederick Abel and Charles E Munroe, though less well-known, also played critical roles. Alongside their achievements, this book highlights the uses and impact of explosives in both war and terrorism, and in civil engineering, quarrying, mining, demolition, fireworks manufacture and shooting for sport. In many cases explosives are seen to have had a significant historical impact as, for example, in the early use of gunpowder in the American Civil War, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and the worldwide opening up of canals and railways.

By: G I Brown
Imprint: The History Press Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 200mm, Width: 120mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 310g
ISBN: 9780752456966
ISBN 10: 0752456962
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 28 July 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

G. I. BROWN was educated at Blackburn Grammar School, Kingswood School, and Magdalen College, Oxford. He served as a technical officer with Special Operations Executive in England and with the Services Reconnaissance Department in Australia Thereafter, he taught chemistry and was a housemaster at Eton College until he retired in 1984. He is the author of several highly successful chemistry textbooks with worldwide sales close to one million.