Word: nitroglycerine
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...plating. Already in the tank were 75 gal. of acid and 2 gal. of glycerin. Thinking to add more acid, Wallace Foreman picked up a 3-gal. container, dumped in the contents. Unluckily the container held not sulphuric but nitric acid. Nitric acid plus sulphuric acid plus glycerin makes nitroglycerin...
...lights of the bathroom in the rear of his house. He heard someone scurry down the driveway to his garage. Next morning he knew better than to investigate when he found the hood of his automobile open, wires dangling near the spark plugs. Detectives detached a ten-inch nitroglycerin bomb...
...Bolivar, N. Y. 400 quarts of nitroglycerin exploded, shook the countryside. American Glycerine Co. waited nervously for reports of damage done. None came until Mrs. A. D. Peckham sued for damages because the blast had jiggled the eggs on which her 30 canaries were setting, ruined the hatch...
...Newark last September many guessed, because it was only his second visit to any airport, that he had little knowledge of aeronautics. But Thomas Edison, like Leonardo da Vinci, attacked the problem of aerodynamics early in his inventive career. About 1880 he devised an airplane engine powered by nitroglycerin. A roll of ordinary ticker-tape, turned into guncotton, was fed between two copper rolls into the cylinder and exploded electrically. But when the engine itself exploded and injured an assistant, Edison abandoned the project. In 1910 he secured a patent for a helicopter type, said to embody a number...
Died. Alfred Day Payne, Amarillo (Tex.) lawyer, who a month ago con- fessed that he had intentionally murdered his wife by hiding a bomb in her automobile (TIME, Aug. 11); by his own hand, when he exploded a vial of nitroglycerin in his cell at the Potter County gaol in Amarillo...