Random Noise #16 : Dangerous Knowledge

... holding the paper with one hand, and jumping up and down as she works the pumping-handle with the other, she pushes dynamite down the tube till the paper cylinder is filled to a depth of about three inches.
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To see this operation - the brass rods flying up and down, damp with nitroglycerin, and dynamite being forcibly jammed down a brass tube - entirely destroys your appetite for further knowledge.

H. J. W.  Dam
From a description in McClure’s Magazine, August 1897, of the Ardeer explosives factory founded by Alfred Nobel.

Google Earth image of Alfred Nobel's Ardeer explosives factory, Ardeer, Scotland.