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The 1998 Dexter Award Address Bull. Hist. Chem. 24 (1999) 1 THE 1998 DEXTER AWARD ADDRESS "FROM AN INSTRUMENT OF WAR TO AN INSTRUMENT OF THE LABORATORY: THE AFFINITIES CERTAINLY DO NOT CHANGE" CHEMISTS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUNITIONS, 1785-1885 Sr . Mpf, Unvrt I dpl pld nd hnrd t b th r d th prph f n f pbltn, tn rpnt f th xtr Ard. I ht dd tht I fr th "Cnè r r l pdr nn l ht tn b hn I nfrd (2"f ph rt. It prtnt tht I hnr tht I hd bn nntd, fr I rnz tht I hv rt b th f n f h ttn b h bn thn f "prdl n" rrdn th h h pld n prtnt rl n th trjtr f n tr f htr. I lft th fld fr bt fftn r rrh n th htr f htr. Ornll, I was t thr b th lfln frnd (nd hr ntrtd n th pt f h r fr hh h bt f th n n bjt vr dffrnt fr th h n—nltl htr nd th f fnt tr f htr (. Mr rprtn—bt th th n vr, rrh n th fld l ntxt f th rltn h bn ht nrth hp f rt t th dx I hv ht t tp npt f fxd nrl p tht hv d ntrt n ntprr rnh n t bt hd nt t rtllrph nd nrl trtd h hlrl ttn . M rnttn was tra- tn, t lt t th t I b ditional and "internalist" (to n td. 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Althh thr, r xpl hnrbl xptn prvn th rl b thr ll v trl (l pt hlrt r ndrd nbr. h nld Mlthf td f vr ltr prpllnt fr t t t, th frt rll ttpt t dl th th lt htnthntr rnh r rvl t npdr "nttn," hhl prbl f ltptr ppl (6 nd Gllp d ntrtd fr f lll, d b trtn ttn th n f vr rl n th Régie des Poudres, th nntrtd ntr nd lfr d, dvrd b rnh npdr dntrtn, n h trl Chrtn rdrh Shönbn n 846 (. trl trt (. ll t hv rt nd vrd ndtrl ftr n th nntnth nd tntth ntr (4, bt ht t ntbl ttrtd Shönbn nd h ntp Bull. Hist. Chem. 24 (1999) 3 raries' attention was the explosive property of guncot- Proust's epigraph: "From and instrument of war to an ton. It was, weight for weight, more powerful than gun- instrument of the laboratory, the affinities certainly do powder and burned completely without producing smoke not change." Proust, more than any other chemist, at- and, apparently, without fouling guns. Yet it took forty tempted to develop gunpowder chemistry into a useful years to develop an effective nitrocellulose-based smoke- military application; the context of the quotation was less powder as a military propellant. What I want to fo- his assertion that the saturation proportion between char- cus on is a part of that story: the work of the English coal and saltpeter, determined in the laboratory, was pre- munitions chemist, Frederick Abel, who tried to "tame" cisely the same as that in a gun (16). guncotton for use as a military propellant in the 1860s. Abel achieved part of this objective by 1865 and ap- Another issue concerned the relationship of changes peared to be very optimistic about developing a smoke- in the propellant to guns and projectiles (and vice versa). less military propellant from guncotton that would re- It was the introduction of an English-derived powerful place gunpowder; he abruptly abandoned this research gunpowder into France in the early 1820s, which was in the late 1860s and instead embarked on a massive soon blasting test cannon out of commission, that led study of the function of gunpowder in guns of all cali- French investigators to concentrate on studying the bers. physical parameters of gunpowder in order to control its ballistic force. By the late 1850s, attention was turned What follows is a "systemic" approach that I have to major changes in all aspects of guns: the materials found to be of heuristic value in conceptualizing the re- out of which they were made, the mechanism of load- lationship of science to the development of military pro- ing and, above all, their power. It now became more pellants (15). Of the three such systems (two "physi- important than ever to determine and control the rate at cal" and one "social") I shall focus on gunpowder to which the ballistic force of the propellant was released illustrate the physical systems. and built up in gun bores. Although French investiga- tors had been moving towards this recognition earlier in I. h St the century, it was an American, T. J. Rodman, who seems to have been the first to determine the relation- The first system is that of the propellants themselves. It ship between powder grain (or cartridge) size, burn rate, includes the physical and chemical properties relevant and gun bore pressure.
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