GB Patent: 187,504,179 - Improved explosive


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GB Patent: GB-187,504,179

Improved explosive

Patentee:

Alfred Nobel (exact or similar names) - Paris, France

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Assignees:

None

Manufacturer:

Alfred Nobel & Co. - Hamburg, Germany

Witnesses:

Unknown

Patent Dates:
Granted:	Dec. 02, 1875

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Description:

The invention is mixture of nitroglycerine and guncotton (nitrocellulose) that becomes gelatinized and is both more stable than dynamite (patent GB-186,701,345) and a more powerful explosive than dynamite. It is now most usually known as gelignite.