On the night of February 10, 1941, Major Trevor Pritchard hit the ground with a hard thud, his parachute billowing behind him. Disentangling himself, the stunned soldier quickly scanned the dark ...

A HUNDRED years ago there occurred a striking double even the consequences of which could scarcely have been foreseen, even by the most imaginative visionary of the time: Ascanio Sobrero, professor of ...

Call George Humphrey Tichenor a renaissance man, because that's exactly the kind of life he lived. Businessman, policymaker, photographer, a potential Louisiana candidate for the U.S. House of ...

AMERICAN lawmakers are urging the US Department of Defense to explore the possibility of establishing a joint ammunition manufacturing and storage facility with the Philippines in Subic Bay. The ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

The massive fire at an Ayrshire chemical factory took place at a site with a long history of dealing with volatile substances. The Nobel Enterprises plant at Ardeer in Stevenston started life as an ...

Germany's largest arms manufacturer Rheinmetall on Monday said it plans to take over a supplier specializing in nitrocellulose, a product used as a propellant in artillery ammunition and other ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rheinmetall has agreed to buy a Mittelstand producer of propellants for ammunition, as Germany’s largest ...

Answer: Flash paper, guncotton, nitrocellulose, it’s all the same stuff with different names. It was a serendipity, or chance discovery. Christian Friedrich Schonbein (1799-1868) was a German-Swiss ...

ANNALS OF SCIENCE about Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, tells about his adventures inEngland, campaigning against laws forbidding the manufacture & transport of dynamite. It looked as if he'd ...