BLOWING UP
AS A FINE 1ST.
How Gun-cotton and Other Modern
Explosives are Utilized by Military
imgineers.
Tkere is probably no branch of modern
warfare of which less is known than that
which devolves upon the military engi
neer, and, of that service, the art of
handling explosives is one of the most
mysterious to the mind of the civilian.
To the contemplative mind the fact that
a few slabs of gun-cotton can, if properly
applied, simply , annihilate the work of
years, is a satire upon the supposed im
mutability of he who builds his house
upon a rock.
The military engineer is one of the
most important individuals connected
with an army, for it is his duty to build
lip and tear down, to create and to des
troy. As the army proceeds upon its
march his creative faculty is often called
into play. There are bridges of all kinds
that must be built, means of communica
tiou must be established, aud in count
less other ways does the army depend
for its comrort as wen as its success upon
the engineering corps that accompanies
it.
The structures that they erect may be
lor temporary use only, but they must
be firmly constructed for all that, and in
the same way when they are called upon
to wreck the result of the labor of ages
the destruction must be effectual.
To the military engineer this question
of destruction is one of the most simple
problems that he is called upon to face.
He knows, almost to a fraction, the
amount of damage a slab of wet or dry
gun-cotton is capable of doing. He fully
realizes that the explosive force of the
wet is slightly greater than the dry, but
that it is incapable of performing its ter
ble work when in that condition unless
THIS IS THE Wr TO DESTROY
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fulminate of mercury or some other pow
erful detonating substance is brought
into contact with it. It is for this reason
that the bulk of the explosive is carried
wet while a small portion is kept dry 10
be used in preparing the larger pieces for
business.
ABOt:T THE "COTTON."
Gun-cotton is one of the most interest
ing of the many strange substances tha
now play such an important part in war
fare. It is one of the oldest of the mod
era explosives and is often mentioned
in stories from the front, but in spite o.t
that there are many persons who havo
only the vaguest idea regarding its com
position and are puzzled to understand
why such a terrifically destructive com
pound should be existing under such a
name as "cotton." For the information
of such persons a brief description of the
compound may not be uninteresting.
Gun-cotton was discovered by Schon
bein in IS-W. The inventor gave it the
name of pyroxylin, a word derived from
two Greek words meaning "fire" and
'"wood." It is formed by immersing
cotton, tow. luien, sawdust, or any other
form of cellulose, in a mixture of equal
measure of oil of vitrol and nitric acid.
When the process of manufacture has
been carried to this extent no change of
form has occurred, but there has been a
very marked chemical alteration. A cer
tain number of equivalents of hydrogen
are then abstracted and their place is
supplied by an equal number of equiva
lents of peroxide of nitrogen. In under
going this change the fibre is increased
in weight 8- per cent, aud acquires new
Properties.
, .The e:plosibility of pyroxylin has
canned it to be used in all kinds of de
structive work, and, its use becoming so
general, it was found necessary to pro
vide it with a more common name. Py
roxylin was a T;ood word for scientists
to use but it was too learned and too
flwkwnrd for common people to strussrU
with therefore the more familiar appela
tion was chosen.
Gun-cotton has many peculiarities, but
one of the strangest things about it is
that one can light a small piece of the
dry substance with a match without
danger. There will be a puff of flame
and nothing more. If the same amount
of the explosive should be placed on an
anvil, however, and should then be struck
with a hammer it is extremely doubtful
if one ever found any remains of either
hammer, anvil or experimenter. At the
eame time it is perfectly safe for a per
son who knows how to handle gun-cotton
to cut it with a knife or saw and this is
done, not, only in the factories but often
by the engineers Jn the field.
The1 process of exploding the gun-cotton
is very simple as it only requires a
small, quantity of detonating substance
to explode the dry substance and this
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ONE METHOD OF BLOWING UP
A BRIDGE.
stanceproviding the flash has been con
veyed to it through the medium of the dry
cotton. Tie detonator, therefore, is
nothing more than a brass tube with a
small quantity of fulminate of mercury
at one end, into which a strand of quick
match is passed.
THE EXPLOSION.
One of the courses of study required
in the making of a military engineer is
that which specifies the best ways to use
explosives. For instance .there are rules
for everything and these rules are so
specific that the engineer in the field can
instantly decide as to the quickest and
surest means of wrecking any object that
he may be called upon to destroy.
If it is a bridge that is to be wrecked
a board is fastened to the centre pier and
between this board and the masonry of
the bridge a layer of gun-cotton is placed.
When this is exploded the pier will be
split in two parts and the entire bridge
will necessarily collapse. If the piers of
the bridge are extremely short and thick
hoi es are dug through the roadway and
the gun-cotton is placed in the crown of
the arch. When it is fired the arch is
split and the bridge falls.
The amount of gun-cotton required to
accomplish work of this kind is usually
calculated ou the basis of about two
thirds of a pound for each two feet
of thickness and length to be demolished.
Another use to which gun-cotton is
ANOTHER METHOD OF DOING
THE SAME THING.
often put is in the destruction of a rail
road system, for a comparatively small
quantity of the substance will rip up the
best railway lines ever constructed, and
do the work so thoroughly that the prob
lem of repairing the break is a somewhat
serious one. In such cases the charge
is placed in the rim of the rail and is (Se
cured by a clip. The charge required to
destroy a steel rail is one-quarter of a
pound; an iron rail two-thirds of a pound..
While gun-cotton is the principal ex
plosive agent used in military engineer
ing its arrangement requires so much
delicate preparation that there are occa
sions upon which its use is impractical.
In such cases gun powder or some less
delicate explosive is used, but among all
these substances there are none that have
stood such thorough tests and have given
srch satisfaction as the ' old gun-cotton
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