Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World by Jack Kelly

Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World

Jack Kelly

272 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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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 bee...

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