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Giant Powder Company
Company typeManufacturing
IndustryExplosives
Founded1867 in San Francisco, California, United States
FounderJulius Bandmann
FateDefunct
ProductsDynamite
OwnerAtlas Powder Company (from 1915)

The Giant Powder Company was an explosives manufacturing company which operated from the mid 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, located in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. The Giant Powder Company was the first company in the United States to produce dynamite under an exclusive license from Alfred Nobel.

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