Explosives Collection (page 2)

Three boys play with fulminating powder Date: 1950s

Loading pontoon boats with ammunition, Western Front, WW1
British troops loading pontoon boats with ammunition on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Gunpowder Factory
The ruins of the old Powdermills in the Cherrybrook Valley, near Postbridge, Devonshire, England, which used to produce gunpowder. Date: 19th century

New Zealand gunners loading ammunition, France, WW1
New Zealand gunners loading a limber with ammunition near Albert, northern France, during the First World War. Date: September 1916

HMS Aurora, British light cruiser with mines, WW1
HMS Aurora, British Arethusa-class light cruiser, launched 1913, served in various locations during the First World War, decommissioned 1918. Seen here with mines lined up along her quarter deck

Explosion at Faversham
The remains of a gun cotton or gun powder mill at Favershams Marsh Works, Kent, which was destroyed in a violent explosion in 1847. The blast was so strong that it was heard 17 miles away

Training a police dog
A Police Dog and handler at Twickenham Rugby Stadium. The dog is being trained to sniff out suspicious packages that could have been planted under the seats in the South Stand (now re-developed)

Bridge damaged by explosives, Iraq
View of a bridge that has been damaged by explosives, somewhere in Iraq

Bones Make Explosives - World War II poster
World War Two poster encouraging civilians on the Home Front to save all bones for salvage as they can be made into bombs for the war effort

Captured Russian explosive WWII
Captured Russian high explosive bomb during World War II

British and American troops stacking dynamite on the Nijmege
Photograph showing British and American troops stacking dynamite charges against the railing of Nijmegen Bridge, September 1944

Mixing House Girls Rubbing and Mixing Dynamite
Nobel explosives works at Ardeer, Scotland - women mixing dynamite

Mixing Acids Previous to Nitrating
Manufacture of Dynamite at Nobel works, Ardeer, Scotland

Manufacture of Dynamite at Nobel works, Avigliana, Italy

Dynamite at Nobel Works
Manufacture of Dynamite at Nobel works, Ardeer, Scotland

Weapons / Explosives
Title-page of Alfred Nobels patent for nitroglycerine, issued at Stockholm 1866

Gunpowder / I See & Smile
I see and smile The barrels of gunpower are discovered

Nobel Works Scotland
Nobel explosives works at Ardeer, Scotland

Eugene Turpin
EUGENE TURPIN French scientist in his laboratory: he invented melinite, a form of gas warfare, as well as other explosives

Gunpowder Manufacture
Technical depiction of an early Gunpowder Mill

Arms from America
ARMS FOR SINN FEIN Submarines smuggle weapons and explosives into Ireland for Sinn Fein, sent by sympathisers in the United States

Gunpowder Invented
German monk BERTHOLD SCHWARZ is credited with the invention of gunpowder; though it certainly existed before his time, he may have improved its practical effectiveness

Mining Messines Ridge
Royal Engineers mine the Messines Ridge under German lines, and place explosives, which when detonated on 7 June 1917, assist the British in taking Ypres

BISSONs BRAVERY 1827
GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE: Lieut. Bisson, French Navy, blows up a captured Turkish ship & its crew rather than have it retaken. There stands a monument to him in Navarino

Testing Explosives / 1866
Experiments with Gales protected gunpowder in a Martello Tower near Hastings

Packing House: Packing the Dynamite Cartridges into Boxes
Manufacture of Dynamite at Nobel works, Ardeer, Scotland: putting Dynamite cartridges into boxes

Fawkes Lays Gunpowder
Guy Fawkes lays the gunpowder underneath the House of Lords

Mixing Dynamite into Cartridges
Manufacture of Dynamite at Nobel works, Ardeer, Scotland: putting Dynamite into cartridges

Chinese Emperor Wu Wang entertaining with gunpowder
The Chinese Emperor Wu Wang (Zhou Dynasty) uses gunpowder to make loud noises to entertain his guests

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping