Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1912 — EXPERIMENTS WITH WONDERFUL NEW EXPLOSIVE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EXPERIMENTS WITH WONDERFUL NEW EXPLOSIVE

THE picture in' the lower left hand corned showa Marquis Roberto Imperiali setting the fuse to 800 grams of the new explosive, “imperialite," Invented by him, at experiments held near New York. The central picture shows the 25-ton granite bowlder shattered to atoms by the forcfe of the explosive, The upper right hand picture is that of the inventor. Before setting off the blast, the marquis pounded a handful of the new explosive between two heavy hammers, melted It Into vapor and heated It gradually to 400 degrees centigrade, without frightening any of the men and .women gathered to witness the experiments.