The Encyclopedia of Discovery and Invention - Explosives: Devices of Controlled Destruction

By Sean M. Grady

When Alfred Nobel first mixed a concoction he called dynamite, he knew immediately he had come up with something important. The invention of dynamite brought an explosion of growth - in road building, in mining, and in canal construction.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560062509
• ISBN13: 9781560062509
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Lucent Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.5" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8