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[[Gunpowder]] was the first rocket fuel, first used in ancient China.<ref name=theatlan ...and how, we have to travel back to the invention of the first rocket fuel: gunpowder, or "the fire chemical," as it was called in ancient China.

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...rm]]s and [[firework]]s. The [[gas]]es generated by [[Conbustion|burning]] gunpowder create enough [[pressure]] to propel a bullet, but not enough to destroy th Gunpowder is a [[explosives#low explosive|low explosive]] – which means that it has

...homas Lee Johnson. ''Naval Ordnance: A Text-book'' (1915), esp ch 13-15 on gunpowder and shells [http://books.google.com/books?id=zEhAAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcov * Guilmartin, John F., Jr. "The Earliest Shipboard Gunpowder Ordnanace: an Analysis of its Technical Parameters and Tactical Capabilitie

...hen it came time to fire the piece, would apply the burning part either to gunpowder or "fast fuse" in the touchhole of the gun, which would then carry flame to

...''' is an indirect fire weapon, often muzzle-loader, firing shells using a gunpowder propellant. Mortars are short-barreled, having barrels with a length 10 or ...intended to batter down walls, a mortar, firing hollow shells filled with gunpowder or incendiary material, could fly over the wall to wreak havoc within it.

...antism|Protestant]] [[James I of England|James I]]. The failure of this '[[Gunpowder Plot]]' is marked across the UK with [[bonfire]]s on which an effigy of Guy

* Guilmartin, John Francis, Jr. ''Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the Si

...ion. In 1998 Iowa State University's History Department awarded my paper ''Gunpowder Artillery and the Demise of the Medieval Castle'' best graduate paper of th

...iber bullet such as .22, as opposed to .38 just for example, contains less gunpowder and thus might seem to be less dangerous to living creatures. But this is

...r own stools. Beyond it was a small tower, where the Town Council kept its gunpowder. In 1718, this tower blew up, and the west end of the church was destroyed.

Historically, when artillery was powered by [[gunpowder]], a vessel's magazine would be kept below water level. The [[gunner]] and

...sive forming in the modern sense, because he worked with [[gunpowder|black gunpowder]], the detonation velocity of which is too low for what is generally called

*[[Gunpowder]]

...agine no suicide bombers, no 9/11, no 7/7, no Crusades, no witch-hunts, no Gunpowder Plot, no Indian Partition, no Israeli/Palestinian wars, no Serb/Croat/Musli

...y powder enough." By this he meant that he had enough money to pay for the gunpowder required for his captors to shoot him.

...books.google.com/books?id=Qe4PoOd89XIC&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq=Korean+obtain+gunpowder+fight+pirate&source=web&ots=CGeA_mPs63&sig=PMwEDsz7z64HHAbUz0dYzCKH-JU&hl=e ...s indicated above, one scholar has even called early Ming China the first “gunpowder empire” in the early modern world and asserts that it was the Ming, not t

Castle refortified during the [[Jacobite Rebellion]]; keep used to store [[gunpowder]]