A Most Damnable Invention: Dynamite, Nitrates, and the Making of the Modern World by Stephen R. Bown
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A Most Damnable Invention
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A history of gunpowder and dynamite traces the discovery of nitrate and the international impact of its use, chronicling the global struggle to find raw materials while citing the contributions of such figures as Alfred Nobel and Fritz Haber. By the author of Scurvy.
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GOR013514100
9780312329136
031232913X
A Most Damnable Invention: Dynamite, Nitrates, and the Making of the Modern World by Stephen R. Bown
Used - Like New
Hardback
Thomas Dunne Books
20051001
272
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