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...sault. Bombardment, [[scurvy]], lack of [[water]], perhaps a shortage of [[gunpowder]] and the threat of starvation meant that the castle's surrender came at no

...y undetected, but his weapon was not adequate. It was a fused container of gunpowder, which was to be attached, by a screw, to the hull. Unfortunately for the a ...ubmarine was muscle powered. Her weapon was a "spar torpedo", or barrel of gunpowder, with a trigger on a long cord, at the end of a wooden spar projecting from

* Hall, Bert S. ''Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics'' (2001) [http://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Warfare-Re

## [[Gunpowder]]

...lifting (a human being, an electric motor as used in elevators, exploding gunpowder, etc.) is left out of the equation. The lifting agent loses at a minimum th

...d used it for many experiments. He also tried to build an engine fueled by gunpowder, but never successfully completed one.

...ed technical explanation is that bags of loose propellant (i.e., smokeless gunpowder) were rammed too quickly into the breech of the gun. <ref name=Iowa>{{citat

...allenged centuries of religious orthodoxy and ingrained superstition. From gunpowder technology, the discovery of the new world, movable type printing, perspect

...do not need pumps to move them into a combustion chamber. Indeed, black [[gunpowder]], as the first solid propellant, was introduced in the 13th century.

...sault. Bombardment, [[scurvy]], lack of [[water]], perhaps a shortage of [[gunpowder]] and the threat of starvation meant that Cholmley could hold out no longer

...avour: bombardment, [[scurvy]], lack of [[water]], perhaps a shortage of [[gunpowder]] and the threat of starvation meant that the castle's surrender came on 25 ...n by 1746. The keep was pressed into service as a powder magazine, storing gunpowder, and the South Steel Battery was rebuilt. In 1748, the Master Gunner's hous

...avour: bombardment, [[scurvy]], lack of [[water]], perhaps a shortage of [[gunpowder]] and the threat of starvation meant that the castle's surrender came on 25 ...n by 1746. The keep was pressed into service as a powder magazine, storing gunpowder, and the South Steel Battery was rebuilt. In 1748, the Master Gunner's hous

...is even greater when he does not stop with the priestly secret, the basic gunpowder formula, and introduces improved gun design, and, above all, tactics and st

.... pp.&nbsp;29</ref> smoke bombs, hand grenades, battering rams loaded with gunpowder,<ref name="swope27">Swope, 2005. pp.&nbsp;27</ref> and mortars that fired u The Koreans entered the gunpowder age in the late 14th century during the Goryeo Dynasty. They discovered the

...French Revolution. From 1775 to 1792 he served as a director of the French Gunpowder Administration and succeeded in making France self-sufficient in this criti

...ter, their junks. They also began making paper from vegetable fibres - and gunpowder.<ref name=hist1/>

...xton]] negotiated a resolution to the [[Gunpowder Incident of Williamsburg|Gunpowder Incident]] by transferring royal funds as payment for the powder. The incid

With the advent of the discovery of [[gunpowder]] in China, lavish [[fireworks]] displays could also be held during festivi

...to defend Mobile Bay. Selma's Confederate Nitre Works procured niter, for gunpowder, from limestone caves. When supplies were low, it advertised for housewives

* Hall, Bert S. ''Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics'' (2001) [http://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Warfare-Re