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Published: 2015-07-17

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9781331647539

Excerpt from The History of the E. I. Du Pont De Nemours Powder Company: A Century of Success No one really knows when the making of gunpowder began. It may have been in China. It may have been in Arabia. It may have been in India. It may have been in Germany or England. Evidences of something like it are found in the oldest records of ancient Egypt. The mysteries of "Greek fire" are presumed to have been based upon it, and many of the spectacles of Imperial Rome are said to have owed much of their brilliant splendor to the flashes of pyrotechnics and the bursting of bombs which alone could have been created by substances analogous to powder. So, in the first place, the manufacture of gunpowder has behind it the venerableness of age, together with all its romance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.