The fourth of a series of lectures delivered this year was given on Saturday afternoon at the Rifle Range, by Captain O. H. Godfrey, Engineer Ca., 8.V.C., on the subject of "Explosives, with Special Reference to Dynamite," and some interesting experiments in the use of explosives were conducted. It has been the practice to get this training done at various times during the year, but on the present occasion the work was combined into an afternoon's programme, and was watched by a number of visitors, among them being many ladies.
Twenty-one tests were made, showing the various uses to which explosives are used by military engineers, cordite being used in each of the tests. There were first demonstrations with the Pickford time fuse, in water, and with detonator, and these were followed by demonstrations of the use of the electric detonator, in air, in water, inserted in wood, and enclosed in a kerosene tin. Cordite
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