The Big Bang: A History of Explosives
by G. I. Brown, Adam Hart Davis

Cloth/Bath Books Book, 240 pages

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Description

Gunpowder was first used in China around 850 AD but appeared in the western world roughly 500 years later. Dynamite and a host of other explosives replaced it. Then came the atomic bomb and the post-war development of the H-bomb. Many of those involved, Roger Bacon, Alfred Nobel, and Dupont among others, played crucial roles in the development of the explosive. The Big Bang tells the tales of the personalities involved and highlights the uses and impact of explosives in both war and terrorism, and in civil engineering, quarrying, mining, demolition, fireworks and sport.