RGM Historic Book Series The Historic Book Series are Facsimilie reprints of books having historical relevance to the development and manufacture of gunpowder at the Royal Gunpowder Mills. Book List A Treatise on Gunpowder (1830) Author: Frederick DraysonISBN: 9781492383871Softcover: 8.5"x11", 122 pages, 37 images Book: £7.99 / eBook: £5.99This book has been transcribed from the original 1830 handwritten manuscript. It contains an exact description of every building and utensil and of every process followed in refining nitre and sulphur, charring wood, and manufacturing them into gunpowder. Buy Paperback Pamphlet on the Manufacture of Gunpowder (1857) Author: Major Fraser BaddeleyISBN: 9781493579310Softcover: 8.5"x11", 48 pagesBook: £5.99 / eBook: £3.99An Aide Memoire describing as clearly and simply as possible the ingredients and processes involved in the manufacture of gunpowder. Buy Paperback Handbook of Gunpowder and Guncotton (1888) Author: Major-General W. H. WardellISBN: 9781493579402Softcover: 8.5"x11", 160 pages, 14 imagesBook: £9.99 / eBook: £7.99This handbook is founded upon "Notes on Gunpowder' and Guncotton," drawn up by me at the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey, in 1878, and revised in 1882 for the use of the Gentlemen Cadets of the Royal Military Academy. Buy Paperback A Handbook of the Manufacture and Proof of Gunpowder as carried on at the Royal Gunpowder Factory (1870) Author: Captain F. M. SmithISBN: 9781493622955 Softcover: 8.5"x11", 154 pages, 26 imagesBook: £9.99 / eBook: £7.99This short treatise is intended as a guide to officers who wish to make themselves acquainted with the manufacture and proof of gunpowder. Buy Paperback A Memoir on Gunpowder; in which are discussed the Principles both of its Manufacture and Proof (1832) Author: John BraddockISBN: 9781493632503 Softcover: 8.5"x11", 144 pagesBook: £9.99 / eBook: £7.99The Author believes there is not a single work extant in the English language that discusses the manipulation of Gunpowder, and the best and most accurate methods of ascertaining its strength and quality. Buy Paperback Gunpowder and Ammunition - Their Origin and Progress (1904) Author: Lieut.-Colonel Henry W. L. HimeISBN: 9781493632923Softcover: 8.5"x11", 258 pagesBook: £13.99 / eBook: £12.99Much discussion has been caused in the past by the vagueness of the word gunpowder. Difficulty arises from the change of meaning which many technical words have undergone in the lapse of years. Buy Paperback Centenary Memorial of the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey (1887) Author: W. Winters, F. R. Hist. Soc.ISBN: 9781493749690Softcover: 8.5"x11", 178 pagesBook: £10.99 / eBook: £8.99The progress of the Royal Works from their earliest known existence to the present time, which have been recorded weekly in the Waltham Abbey Telegraph. Buy Paperback The Rise and Progress of the British Explosives Industry (1909) Editor: E. A. Brayley HodgettsISBN: 978493688449 Softcover: 8.5"x11", 436 pages, 39 imagesBook: £15.99 / eBook: £13.99At a meeting of the Committee of the Explosives Section of the Seventh International Congress of Applied Chemistry, it was proposed that a history of the rise and progress of the Explosives Industry in the British Isles should be compiled. Buy Paperback Manage Cookie Preferences