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Essay Galaxy - History Of Gunpowder
GUNPOWDER
Gunpowder is the oldest of all explosives. It was used by the ancient
Chinese, Arabs, and people of India first. But exact directions on how to make
it were not known to the western World until 1242, when Roger Bacon of Oxford
University, in England published a book in which he told the ways to make
gunpowder. Today gunpowder is not used as much as more powerful explosives
After Roger Bacon published his formula for gunpowder, Berthold
Schwarz, a German monk, developed it as a practical explosive in the thirteen
hundreds. Schwarz is said to have invented a firearm which exploded shells by
the action of gunpowder. Gunpowder was being used in cannons as early as
thirteen forty-six. At that time, gunpowder was actually in powder form. It had to
be loaded carefully into the cannon, so that the charge would be packed
pr....
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