A gunpowder mill is a mill where gunpowder is made. Gunpowder Mills may refer to: Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills in Ireland Faversham Royal Gunpowder...
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Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive. It consists of...
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Royal Gunpowder Mills may refer to: Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills Faversham, Kent explosive industry Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills This disambiguation...
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From 1802 to 1921, Eleutherian Mills was a gunpowder mill site used for the manufacture of explosives founded by Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, which grew into...
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The Royal Gunpowder Mills are a former industrial site in Waltham Abbey, England. It was one of three Royal Gunpowder Mills in the United Kingdom (the...
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the gunpowder. Some 20th-century powder mills used electric power. Before the availability of safe electrical power, some of the most successful mills were...
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River Kent (redirect from River Kent snuff and gunpowder mills)
enable their mills to operate throughout the year. There were corn mills and bobbin mills on the upper river, and the weir from the Staveley mill now supplies...
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Waltham Abbey (section Royal Gunpowder Mills)
events of the London 2012 Olympic Games. For over 300 years, the Royal Gunpowder Mills on the Millhead Stream were in operation, where many of the processes...
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idli podi or milagai podi. Gunpowder empires Gunpowder Incident Gunpowder mill, where gunpowder is manufactured Gunpowder Plot This disambiguation page...
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The Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills was one of three Royal gunpowder mills that manufactured gunpowder for the British Government. Located in Ballincollig...
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Historical Park, Thunder Bay, Ontario Fort York, Toronto The Ballincollig gunpowder mills were first opened in the late 18th century and were bought, in 1804...
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Smokeless powder (redirect from Smokeless gunpowder)
Sir Frederick Abel began thorough research at Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills leading to a manufacturing process that eliminated the impurities in...
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American Powder Mills (1883–1929) was a Massachusetts gunpowder manufacturing complex on the Assabet River. It expanded to include forty buildings along...
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Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills were opened in 1794 by Charles Henry Leslie, a prominent Cork businessman. Eleven years later, the mills were bought by...
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The Hogsmill passes the sites of the Lower and Upper Mills, and Ewell Court Mills, where gunpowder was produced in the 18th and 19th centuries, and gently...
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A mill pond (or millpond) is a body of water used as a reservoir for a water-powered mill. Mill ponds were often created through the construction of a...
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Frederiksværk (section The Gunpowder Mill Museum)
foundry. Under Classen's management the town blossomed, and there came a gunpowder mill, as well as light industry and handicrafts to the town. This resulted...
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In 1812, By was appointed Commanding Royal Engineer of the Royal Gunpowder Mills in Waltham Abbey. A huge explosion had occurred there on 27 November...
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(380,000 m2). Gunpowder mills, known as the Eleutherian Mills, operated on the site from 1802, and by 1810, the site was the largest gunpowder producer in...
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Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills from 1889 onwards. At the start of World War I cordite was in production at Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills and by seven...
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Nicholas Grueber for the establishment of gunpowder mills. Grueber ran the mills from 1716 to 1733. The gunpowder mills on Corkagh Estate, active during the...
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Faversham explosives industry (category Gunpowder mills)
list of dead Chart Gunpowder Mill page Archived 2014-07-27 at the Wayback Machine at The Faversham Society Chart Mills Gunpowder Faversham 51°20′N 0°53′E...
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Greek warriors used their paper in the 14 gunpowder mills that worked day and night, supplying them with gunpowder. For this reason Dimitsana has been called...
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this river worked a flour mill and a number of gunpowder mills, machinery at a foundry, and a paper mill. The gunpowder mills supplied many of the mines...
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Peters Cartridge Company (redirect from Kings Mills Ordnance Plant)
company located along the Little Miami River in Kings Mills, Ohio, which specialized in gunpowder and ammunition production. Founded in 1887 by Gershom...
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administrating officers of the Ballincollig Gunpowder Mills site. Hosting a number of other businesses after the mills closed, in 1983 it was converted to operate...
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revealed that several employees of the Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills (then the largest gunpowder manufacturing plant in the world), had been systematically...
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mills he erected in the area, consulting with engineer Loammi Baldwin, Jr. on the matter. Whipple manufactured Boston Gunpowder at the improved mill until...
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Orsett near Chadwell St Mary Real Circumstance Theatre Company Royal Gunpowder Mills in Waltham Abbey St Peter-on-the-Wall Saffron Walden Southend Pier...
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cloth, leather, wire and gunpowder. The river was home to more mills per mile than anywhere else in Great Britain. The mill situated at Coxes Lock near...
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