[D8704ACA], Letter from Charles Edward Munroe to Thomas Alva Edison, August 20th, 1887
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[D8704ACA], Letter from Charles Edward Munroe to Thomas Alva Edison, August 20th, 1887
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[Letterhead: Torpedo Station, Newport, R.I.] Yours of the 16th received; have tried detonating celluloid both with 35 grains of fulminate and with the fulminate and a gun cotton setter, but celluloid was simply torn in pieces; only succeeded in getting celluloid collars for this purposes; larger, purer masses might detonate but prevailing opinion is is that they don't explode; I wish Hopkins might get some sizeable masses; the chief danger in celluloid manufacture is from gun cotton before it is camphorated and after, when they are fussing [fusing?] it hot.###Have looked up nitrification by electricity and find extensive and illustrated account of experiments in Berthelot's Sur la Force des Matieres Explosives. He succeeded with the Cavendish experiments we were looking for, but no one seems to have tested it commercially; seems worth a try; gives Sprengel's address; thanks TAE for courtesies shown him Tuesday.
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Date
1887-08-20
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Folder/Volume ID
D8704-F
Microfilm ID
119:181
Document ID
D8704ACA
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University