Smokeless tobacco, tobacco that is used by means other than smoking
The Eccles No. 5 mine was opened in 1905; served by the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Virginian Railway, it mined West Virginia smokeless coal.
Some early models had flaws due to rushed ammunition production; anti-Semitic factions within the German press exploited the flaws alleging a conspiracy between one of the rifle’s manufacturers, the Ludwig Loewe Company, and other Jewish owned manufactures, including the firm manufacturing the smokeless powder.
A line in the Weird Al Yankovic song "Mr. Popeil", written about the infomercial giant Ron Popeil, mentions "If you order today, you get a Ginsu knife and a smokeless ashtray."
Access to this inexpensive resource led to Redcliff being promoted as the "Smokeless Pittsburgh of the West".
"Tommy cooker" was a nickname for a British soldier's portable stove, which was fuelled by solidified alcohol, making it smokeless but very inefficient.