Trades
The manufacture of gunpowder involved many skills. The trades mentioned in the board of ordnance list and in (1815) include the following: carpenter, cooper, millwright, master mixer, refiners of brimstone (sulphur), charcoal, and saltpetre, press-house, corning house, glazing house, dusting house men, sawyer, shave cleaver. While a great deal has been written about the process of manufacturing gunpowder in many parts of the world, very little has been written about the work of the different trades in gunpowder mills. This is a brief look at the work of some of these trades.
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“Different trades are like different mountains.”
—Chinese proverb.
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—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
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