Dangerous Energy. The archaeology of gunpowder and military explosives manufacture

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A heavily illustrated history of gunpowder and explosives manufacture in England from the 17th century to the post 1945 period of rocket technology, and of the factories, housing and other structures resulting from it. Written by an industrial archaeologist. The chapters are: 'Success of the black art'; 'The royal factories, 1759-1850'; 'Gunpowder manufacture in the second half of the 19th century'; 'The demise of gunpowder'; 'The development of the chemical explosives industry, c1850-1914'; 'The Great War,1914-18'; 'Rearmament and the Second World War'; 'The archaeology of rocketry'.Includes much about National Filling Factories, Royal Gunpowder Factories, Royal Ordnance Factories,