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A LARGE committee was appointed by the North of England Institute of Mechanical Engineers in 1888, to investigate and report upon the subject of flameless explosives in relation to their degree of safety in mines. Experiments with various explosives and appliances connected with shot-firing were commenced in 1892 at Hebburn-upon-Tyne, and a number of papers referring to them have been contributed to the Institute's Transactions. The first part of the Report of the Committee has just been published, and it clears away many of the doubts and uncertainties connected with the employment of safety explosives in underground workings. Into the details of the experiments we have not space to enter, but the following conclusions deduced from them show the kind of results obtained:—
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The Use of Safety Explosives in Mines. Nature 51, 184–185 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051184b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/051184b0