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.
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