A Most Damnable Invention: Dynamite, Nitrates, and the Making of the Modern World by Stephen R. Bown

A Most Damnable Invention: Dynamite, Nitrates, and the Making of the Modern World

Stephen R. Bown

272 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative reflective slow-paced
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Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's discovery of dynamite made possible the famous industrial megaprojects that transformed the countryside and defined the era, including the St. Gothard rail tunnel through the Alps, the clearing of New York harbor, th...

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