explosion

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18th century illustration of the final stage of refining saltpetre. Published in "A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry. Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'encyclopedie, ou Dictionnarie Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers" of Denis Diderot". (Charles Coulston Gillispie, Dover Publications, New York, 1959).

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Size: 5500px × 3767px
Location: London, UK
Photo credit: © Les Archives Digitales / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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