Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1892 — Terrorite. [ARTICLE]

Terrorite.

The inventor of terrorite, the new explosive, said to be more powerful than dynamited died recently. His name was Dimetry Mimjeleff. He was about fifty years old. His advanced ideas brought him Into disfavor with the Bussian Government, and he was obliged to emigrate to America. As a chemist Mindeleff had more than a national reputation, and several of his important inventions have been patented—among them being a new method for the reduction of cobalt and nickel ore 3, the destruction of phylloxera by means of pyroligneous acid, and the invention of .terrorite, a high explosive that threatens to effect a revolution in warfare and mining.