The first prescription for gunpowder appeared in 1044, much earlier than the earliest (1265) gunpowder-making instructions recorded in Europe. By the Song Dynasty (960-1126), gunpowder was in ...

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 ...

PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. — The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office made history Wednesday with the swearing-in of its very first gunpowder detection dog, designed to help deter school shootings.

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: ...