This article examines the early development of military rockets devised by the English inventor and Royal Society Fellow William Congreve in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Congreve’s efforts to imitate Indian war rockets used against the British in Mysore are set within a number of local and global contexts that saw increasing attempts by Europeans to imitate eastern pyrotechnics w...

This article examines the early development of military rockets devised by the English inventor and Royal Society Fellow William Congreve in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Congreve’s efforts to imitate Indian war rockets used against the British in Mysore are set within a number of local and global contexts that saw increasing attempts by Europeans to imitate eastern pyrotechnics w...

Neutralization of landmines is dangerous and complicated work. For Humanitarian Demining, the most common neutralization method is demolition using small explosive charges. Although common practice, demolition has several disadvantages. Deminers need non-explosive mine neutralization technologies that are safer, more reliable and less expensive. To meet this need, several innovative non-explosi...

The field of pyrotechnic articles is very popular and developed, as a result, the influx on market abundant. However, it should be noted that in addition to compliant products, which meet applicable essential safety requirements covered by Directive no. 2013/29 / EU, there are also products can present significant level danger when used, handled, transported or stored. Market surveillance autho...

Reactive multilayer films are a high energy dense configuration for energetics widely studied various pyrotechnic applications. The objective of this study is to investigate the influence substrate–induced localized stress on combustion properties Al/CuO reactive thin films. Square microbumps patterned glass substrates serve as embedded stressor elements. Stress-induced structural or morphologi...

Bunch-holes blasting (several blastholes arranged in a bunch with short spacing and detonated simultaneously to form large common crater) is typically used underground mines increase efficiency under single free surface. Considering the low accuracy of pyrotechnic detonators, which are commonly Chinese mines, bunch-holes same nominal times actually short-delay blasting, actual delay intervals i...

Abstract Fireworks pollute the local atmosphere with various air pollutants, which can pose a health hazard for population. Mass and number concentrations of aerosols were measured before, during, after 2016/2017 New Year event in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Our findings highlight negative impact fireworks on environment. First, both mass concentration black carbon nanoparticles between 80 150 nm incr...