Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1916 — Making Gunpowder. [ARTICLE]

Making Gunpowder.

A process has been devised by the use of which gunpowder and other high explosives can be manufactured aboard a railway train In motion. The machinery includes device for performing all the essential operations of powder making, from the first compounder, where the elements are mixed, through press, a cutting wheels a hot air drying apparatus, to a glazing cylinder for giving the grains their final polish. If the whole proves as practical as the inventor Relieves it will its effect will be to render powder plants less liable to destruction in time of war than is the case at present. It also will be possible to manufacture, explosives in the very train that is carrying them to the front.