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Gunpowder - Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive that Changed the World (Paperback, New ed)
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Gunpowder - Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive that Changed the World (Paperback, New ed)
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Discovery Miles 4 510
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When 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, Cortes, 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.
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