When gun-cotton was first discovered, no other idea was entertained respecting its application than that of superseding gunpowder as an explosive agent. Since that period, however, it has ...

Pyroxylin or Gun Cotton. It has been about five years, I think, since the distinguished German chemist, Schonbein, made known to the world his discovery, that the action of a certain combination ...

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A handgun used in a murder carried out by notorious police killer Dale Cregan and his henchman has been recovered 12 years ...