SPECIAL EDITION, NUMBERED 30/100! THE DYNAMITE COMPANY BY A P CARTWRIGHT

THE DYNAMITE COMPANY BY A P CARTWRIGHT. NUMBERED 30/100, SPECIAL EDITION, HARDCOVER, FULLY INTACT DUST JACKET WITH TAPE REPAIR, NO INSCRIPTIONS OR NAMES, IN GOOD CONDITION.

In 1896 an explosives factory arose at Modderfontein near Johannesburg. Because of the importance of dynamite and other explosive substances manufactured, the factory became the focus of much political controversy, as well as the people who reaped the profits of this most profitable monopoly on things that go boom. The book continues the story of the explosives industry in South Africa and the importance it played and still plays in commercial mining and the manufacture of war materiel. It even serves the agricultural industry in the manufacture of fertilizers.