The Fire Drug
A maker's history of black powder
William Gurstelle | Make Vol. 13- 2008 | Pdf | 4 pgs | 2 mb
IT TRANSFORMED THE FATE OF NATIONS:
it changed the way wars were fought, made
weak countries strong and strong kingdoms
weak. It ended the Middle Ages and ushered in
the Renaissance with a bang. Its gush of hot,
expanding gas blew a way feudalism, for no longer
could chain-mailed knights on horseback. invulner-
able to hand-held weapons and arrows, maintain
domination over their fiefdoms. In my estimation,
black powder, or gunpowder, is the most important
chemical discovery in the history of mankind.
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