When gun-cotton was first discovered, no other idea was entertained respecting its application than that of superseding gunpowder as an explosive agent. Since that period, however, it has ...

Pyroxylin or Gun Cotton. It has been about five years, I think, since the distinguished German chemist, Schonbein, made known to the world his discovery, that the action of a certain combination ...

IT may be of some interest at the present moment to give a brief summary of certain comparative experiments undertaken with nitro-glycerine and gun-cotton, with a view to ascertain their ...