Note 12 — Chapter I · NOMENCLATURE AND THEORY.
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The 82 lb. dynamite-mine at Willet’s Point produced almost exactly the same effect upon the gallery of access as the 200-lb. cannon-powder mine, while its external crater was considerably less in diameter. Its crater was surrounded, however, by concentric cracks spaced at intervals of 3 or 4 feet to a distance of about 40 feet from the centre of the crater. No such effect was produced by the powder-mine.
On the other hand, the actual radii of rupture produced by five experimental mines fired at Olmutz in 1871-2 agree very closely with the values which result from applying Lebrun’s formulas to craters of the same size and shape produced by gunpowder, and indicate that charges of dynamite and gunpowder which produce identical craters will also have identical radii of rupture. The somewhat contradictory results given by the Willet’s Point and Olmutz mines show the necessity for further experiments.