... THE BIG BANG. FRENCH EXPLOSION GOES OFF WITHOUT INCIDENT. Paris, Thursday. The Big Bang took place La Courtine at 7.30 to-night according to schedule, and everything went off without incident. Only few pressmen and the technical experts were allowed ...

... LAST BIG BANG. Paris, Monday. The fourth and last big bang took place at La Courtine at eight o'clock this evening, when five tons of melinite were exploded the old crater caused by- Friday's explosion. The barrels were buried six yards deep the ground ...

... October, 1922, the International Commission for the Investigation of the pper Air, when five tons ammonia were exploded, the big bang on that occasion being heard over more than 200,000 square miles—in the British Isles far north Newcastle and over the ...