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 ...

Making gunpowder is a bit like cooking ... cannons were a big advancement over existing weaponry during the late Middle Ages. “If you are up on a tower and up against a bunch of knights with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Gunpowder slowly began having a say in European ... you a private penance for your sins was a new idea in the early Middle Ages. Before then, people confessed their sins publicly, and maybe ...

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 ...