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From: sjeyasin@dalriada.axion.bt.co.uk (swaraj jeyasingh)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Explosive Bolts
Message-ID: <1989Dec7.093110.1727@axion.bt.co.uk>
Date: 7 Dec 89 09:31:10 GMT
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From article <1989Dec3.022001.10691@utzoo.uucp>, by henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer):
> In article <16890@nuchat.UUCP> steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia) writes:
>>I found a book on industrial pyrotechnics in a used bookstore a while
>>back -- lots of space stuff in it.  It's on loan at the moment though...
>>check your library.
> 
> 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.
> -- 


Funnily enough, the first space book I ever read as kid had a pic and
description of what an explosive bolt looked like and how it worked.
This was the Ladybird book on ~How it works; The Rocket" (Age 9 upwards !)
This was printed in 1967 and contains a fair (20pages) bit of rocket technology
explained in very simple terms with lots of colour pics. Thoroghly recommend
it for all budding rocket engineers.  Dunno if it is available in the US
though.

They also do the same for: Nuclear power, Aeroplane, Ship etc

(You might be amused to know that I picked up this little gem at our Church
jumble sale in Malaysia (Borneo, in fact) way back in 72 !)

	     I guess that's how "The Dream" travels

Swaraj Jeyasingh                    sjeyasingh@axion.bt.co.uk
British Telecom Research Labs
Ipswich
United Kingdom