Gunpowder made warfare all over the world very different, affecting the way battles were fought and borders were drawn throughout the Middle Ages. Chinese scientists had been playing with ...

Dr. Riegner talked three of her colleagues — and her daughter — into studying how well different kinds of gunpowder recipes from the Middle Ages performed in firing projectiles out of a ...

This brings us back to gunpowder. Using it to launch a projectile to disable an enemy ship was generally impractical in the Middle Ages—but using it to start a fire on board an enemy ship or ...

No one knows exactly when gunpowder, a Chinese invention dating ... of the evolution of the weapons of war from the late Middle Ages through World War II, Paul Lockhart follows the cascading ...

Gunpowder—as opposed to modern smokeless powder—isn't used much these days in current weaponry, although it's still useful for historical weapons and remains popular for fireworks and other ...

First used for battle in China in about 900 A.D., gunpowder spread throughout Eurasia by the end of the 13th century, eventually revolutionizing warfare as a propellant in firearms and artillery.

Misconception: The Middle Ages was all feasting and jousting ... The many innovations of the Song Dynasty include movable type, gunpowder, the cultivation of crops like tea and cotton, and ...

effective gunpowder weapons, and the printing press. So the idea that there was no innovation in the Middle Ages is simply wrong—it was a period of remarkable inventiveness. And the idea that ...

The Middle Ages were a significant time for armourers in the Middle East and Europe. Gunpowder, invented by the Chinese in the first millennium, arrived here in the latter half of the 13th century ...

During the middle ages the invention of gunpowder had the unlikely result of providing a new way of preserving meat. It turned out that saltpeter, one of the main ingredients of the newly invented ...