Short Notes on Gun Powder and Its Manufacture ...
Author: W. H. Wardell (Major.)
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Published: 1877
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Author: W. H. Wardell (Major.)
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Published: 1877
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Great Britain. - Army. - Educational & Training Establishments. - Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
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Published: 1877
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hamilton GEARY
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Published: 1877
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Published: 1872
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1999-01-29
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 0309062462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSome 600 pipe bomb explosions have occurred annually in the United States during the past several years. How can technology help protect the public from these homemade devices? This book, a response to a Congressional mandate, focuses on ways to improve public safety by preventing bombings involving smokeless or black powders and apprehending the makers of the explosive devices. It examines technologies used for detection of explosive devices before they explodeâ€"including the possible addition of marking agents to the powdersâ€"and technologies used in criminal investigations for identification of these powdersâ€"including the possible addition of taggants to the powdersâ€"in the context of current technical capabilities. The book offers general conclusions and recommendations about the detection of devices containing smokeless and black powders and the feasibility of identifying makers of the devices from recovered powder or residue. It also makes specific recommendations about marking and tagging technologies. This volume follows the work reported in Containing the Threat from Illegal Bombings (NRC 1998), which studied similar issues for bombings that utilize high explosives.
Author: Jack Kelly
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2009-04-27
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0786739002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Chinese alchemists fashioned the first manmade explosion sometime during the tenth century, no one could have foreseen its full revolutionary potential. Invented to frighten evil spirits rather than fuel guns or bombs-neither of which had been thought of yet-their simple mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal went on to make the modern world possible. As word of its explosive properties spread from Asia to Europe, from pyrotechnics to battleships, it paved the way for Western exploration, hastened the end of feudalism and the rise of the nation state, and greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution. With dramatic immediacy, novelist and journalist Jack Kelly conveys both the distant time in which the "devil's distillate" rose to conquer the world, and brings to rousing life the eclectic cast of characters who played a role in its epic story, including Michelangelo, Edward III, Vasco da Gama, Cortez, Guy Fawkes, Alfred Nobel, and E.I. DuPont. A must-read for history fans and military buffs alike, Gunpowder brings together a rich terrain of cultures and technological innovations with authoritative research and swashbuckling style.
Author: William Anderson
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Published: 1862
Total Pages: 356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Francis Montagu Smith
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Published: 1871
Total Pages: 182
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brenda J. Buchanan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1351931903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGunpowder studies are still in their infancy despite the long-standing civil and military importance of this explosive since its discovery in China in the mid-ninth century AD. In this second volume by contributors who meet regularly at symposia of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), the research is again rooted in the investigation of the technology of explosives manufacture, but the fact that the chapters range in scope from the Old World to the New, from sources of raw materials in south-east Asia to the complications of manufacture in the West, shows that the story is more than the simple one of how an intriguing product was made. This volume is the first to develop the implications of the subject, not just in the sense of relating it to changing military technologies, but in that of seeing the securing of gunpowder supplies as fundamental to the power of the state and imperial pretensions.The search for saltpetre, for example, an essential ingredient of gunpowder, became a powerful engine of sea-going European trade from the early seventeenth century. Smaller states like Venice were unable to form these distant connections, and so to sustain a gunpowder army. Stronger states like France and Britain were able to do so, and became even more powerful as the demand for improved explosives fostered national strengths - leading to a development of the sciences, especially chemistry, in the former case, and of manufacturing techniques in the latter.
Author: Roger Bacon
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 608
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