manufacturing gunpowder at the ishapore mills in bengal 1862
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Title: Sketch of the mode of manufacturing gunpowder at the Ishapore mills in Bengal, with a record of the experiments carried on to ascertain the value of charge, windage, vent and weight, etc., in mortars and muskets; also reports of the various proofs of powder, with notes and additions by lieut.-col. Parlby
Author: William Anderson
Language: angielski
Year: 1997
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9780801869945
Total pages: 347
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Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe explores the history of gunpowder in Europe from the thirteenth century, when it was first imported from China, to the sixteenth century, as firearms became central to the conduct of war. Bridging the fields of military history and the history of technology-and challenging past assumptions about Europe’s "gunpowder revolution"-Hall discovers a complex and fascinating story. Military inventors faced a host of challenges, he finds, from Europe’s lack of naturally occurring saltpeter-one of gunpowder’s major components-to the limitations of smooth-bore firearms. Manufacturing cheap, reliable gunpowder proved a difficult feat, as did making firearms that had reasonably predictable performance characteristics. Hall details the efforts of armorers across Europe as they experimented with a variety of gunpowder recipes and gunsmithing techniques, and he examines the integration of new weapons into the existing structure of European warfare.
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