The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office made history Wednesday with the swearing-in of its very first gunpowder detection dog, ...

The records also show that the mixture was found to be flammable and often explosive. In 1040 CE, Chinese alchemist Tseng Kun-Liang published the first gunpowder formula for use in weapons. The ...

But you can always reload great grandpa’s musket with some homemade gunpowder. All kidding aside, the invention and proliferation of gunpowder had a profound effect on the world. Here you can ...

Who invented the first rocket and the gunpowder that fueled it? Was the rocket conceived from the very beginning as a weapon? Did the Chinese master the scientific principles of combustion and ...

Only at the final stage of making this gunpowder is the process subject to any explosive contingency. In illustration of this, the following circumstance should be stated; in July, 1868 ...

Gunpowder was first used in 1679, to build an underground section of the Canal du Midi, a canal connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The tunnel was 157 meters long ...

Silas Deane, left, worked with Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, center, to secure gunpowder from Antoine Lavoisier, right. Alamy (3) Shortly after taking command of the Continental Army in ...

On April 21, 1775, Virginia’s last royal governor, John Murray, the Earl of Dunmore, ordered Royal Marines to remove 15 barrels of gunpowder stores from the public magazine in Williamsburg and ...

The plotters have got lots of barrels of gunpowder and a cunning plan. Their first plan was to sneak 36 barrels of gunpowder to the building next door, then dig a tunnel underneath. Plotter: ...