Explosive Devices
- Naval mine, a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines
- Organ gun
- Devices to be used in assassinations:
- Against Napoleon Bonaparte, in the plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise
- Against Louis-Philippe of France by conspirator Giuseppe Fieschi
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Famous quotes containing the words explosive and/or devices:
“Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.”
—Primo Levi (1919–1987)
“Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.”
—Jean Arp (1887–1948)