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From: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Explosive Bolts
Message-ID: <16922@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 3 Dec 89 18:12:41 GMT
References: <14459@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <16890@nuchat.UUCP> <1989Dec3.022001.10691@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
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In article <1989Dec3.022001.10691@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>I found a book on industrial pyrotechnics in a used bookstore a while

>I (and I suspect a lot of other people) would be interested to see a
>more specific reference, i.e. title and author, once you get it back.

No problem -- a quick phone call and ...

	Richard T. Barbour,
	Pyrotechnics in Industry
	McGraw Hill, N.Y. 1981
	ISBN 0-07-003653-5
	catalogue ref: TB270.B29

It is not a heavily mathematical, engineering kind of book, more
of a gee-whiz picture book really, but I recommend it as the best
book of its type I've come across.  I learned a lot about the range
of applications and the way charges are configured in practice, enough
so I think I'd know what questions to asked if I needed to use
pyrotechnics.
-- 
Steve Nuchia	      South Coast Computing Services      (713) 964-2462
"Man is still the best computer that we can put aboard a spacecraft --
 and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor."
					- Wernher von Braun