Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last few posts, we looked at how grain sizes of black powder are/were classified in the US and in 19th century England . In today...

In our last post , we studied some of the physical and mechanical properties of gunpowder, information which will come in handy when we stud...

In our last post, we studied the composition of different kinds of black powder as manufactured in various countries. In today's post, ...

A while ago, we studied about black powder in two separate posts. Since we've studied the processes of obtaining the basic ingredient...

In our last post , we looked at the charcoal manufacturing process, as it was done from the 14th to the early 20th century. In today's p...

After spending the last few weeks studying the history of saltpeter manufacturing around the world, we will spend some time today studying ...