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They Built an Island to Hide Dynamite - Then It Blew Up Civilization
They Built an Island to Hide Dynamite - Then It Blew Up Civilization
Heat, timber, and twenty short tons of nitroglycerin sat in rickety shanties on a deliberately built island in the Detroit River - and when it detonated in 1906 the shock was felt 85 miles away. How did two men with revolvers standing at the water’s edge become the central mystery of a blast that left a 60-foot crater and no fully satisfying explanation?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that led a banned explosives company to build an island, the industrial pressures that kept operations running after earlier…
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