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1Priddy's Hard — is an area of Gosport, in Hampshire, England now being developed for housing with part of the site retained as a museum. However, for some two hundred years it was a restricted access site; first becoming a fort and then an armaments depot for… …
2Lewes bomb — The Lewes bomb was a blast incendiary field expedient explosive device, manufactured by mixing diesel oil and Nobel 808 plastic explosive. It was created by Lieutenant Jock Lewes, one of the original members of L Detachment SAS in 1941. The SAS… …
3Nitrocellulose — Nitrocellulose[1] …
4Smokeless powder — is the name given to a number of propellants used in firearms and artillery which produce negligible smoke when fired, unlike the older gunpowder (black powder) which they replaced. The basis of the term smokeless is that the combustion products… …
5Christian Friedrich Schönbein — Born 18 October 1799(1799 10 18) Metzing …
6Faversham — infobox UK place country = England official name= Faversham latitude= 51.3173 longitude= 0.8908 population = 17,710 (2001 Census) shire district= Swale shire county = Kent region= South East England constituency westminster= Faversham and Mid… …
7Faversham explosives industry — The Faversham explosives industry: Faversham, in Kent, has claims to be the cradle of the UK’s explosives industry: it was also to become one of its main centres. The first Gunpowder plant in the UK was established in the 16th century, possibly… …
8photography, history of — Introduction method of recording the image of an object through the action of light, or related radiation, on a light sensitive material. The word, derived from the Greek photos (“light”) and graphein (“to draw”), was first used in the… …
9Schönbein , Christian Friedrich — (1799–1868) German chemist Schönbein was born at Metzingen in Germany. After studying at the universities of Tübingen and Erlangen, he took up an appointment at the University of Basel in 1828, staying there for the rest of his life. Many stories …
10Nitrogen — carbon ← nitrogen → oxygen ↑ N ↓ P …
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