POLISH INVENTIONS ON TECHNOLOGY OF PRIMARY EXPLOSIVES USED IN MILITARY MUNITIONS

Abstract

The paper presents results of analyses of nine patent descriptions [1-9] of Polish inventions on manufacture technology of primary explosives as lead azide, lead trinitroresorcinate and tetracene, commonly used in military munitions. Five patent descriptions [1,2,7-9] were filed to the Polish Patent Office in years 1935-1975 as unclassified, and the rest patent descriptions [3-6] were applied as classified in years 1954-1962. Announcements about removing secrecy from the classified patent descriptions, were published in the News of the Polish Patent Office in year 2007.