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  2. Giant Powder Company - Wikipedia

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    On November 26, 1869, an explosion destroyed the Giant dynamite factory, killing two and injuring nine people. [3] A new facility was subsequently built at another site located in the western part of San Francisco, among the sand dunes and scrub that later became part of the Sunset District (in the vicinity of today's Kirkham, Ortega, 20th, and ...

  3. Dyno Nobel - Wikipedia

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    Dyno Nobel is a manufacturer of explosives.It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Incitec Pivot Limited operating in Australia, Canada, the United States, Africa, Indonesia, Mexico, South America, Papua New Guinea and Turkey.

  4. Apache Nitrogen Products - Wikipedia

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    Apache Nitrogen Products (formerly Apache Powder Company) began in 1920 as an American manufacturer of black powder based explosives.In the 1930's production transitioned to nitroglycerin-based explosives (dynamite) for the mining industry and other regional users of dynamite.

  5. Two brothers and 16 sticks of dynamite: The bombing of the L ...

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    About 100 workers were in the Los Angeles Times building at 1:07 a.m. Oct. 1, 1910. Then 16 sticks of dynamite exploded at the anti-union newspaper, and people began dying.

  6. Trojan Powder Company - Wikipedia

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    Trojan was one of a small number of explosives companies at the time, and obtained large orders from the British, French and Italians. Demand increased when the United States entered the war in 1917. [3] The haberdasher Thomas Koch (died 1915) was a member of the board of Pennsylvania Trojan Powder Company. [12]

  7. Dynamite - Wikipedia

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    Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay), and stabilizers. [1] It was invented by the Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel in Geesthacht, Northern Germany, and was patented in 1867.

  8. Dynamit Nobel - Wikipedia

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    Dynamit Nobel AG originates from the company Alfred Nobel & Co., founded on 21 June 1865 in Hamburg by the Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel. [3] At the beginning, the company was manufacturing nitroglycerin explosives in the dynamite factory of Krümmel located in Geesthacht, near Hamburg.

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