He found that adding clay to nitroglycerin made a safer product, which he called dynamite. Later, he created blasting caps to explode the dynamite from a distance with a fuse. These inventions allowed ...

Burning Glass is a contraption used to light candles — it can also be used to light the fuse on the Trading Post dynamite.

The man who would blow up the Los Angeles Times sat in a hotel room, preparing the dynamite. He was gaunt ... The younger McNamara made $200 per mission. He spoke of himself as a foot soldier ...