Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last post, we studied the invention of ballistite  by Alfred Nobel in France. In today's post, we will study how Britain managed ...

In our last post, we talked about developments of smokeless powders in France , leading to the invention of Poudre B smokeless powder. In to...

In our last post , we studied some developments in powder technology advancements in France. In today's post we will study some further ...

In our last post , we looked into the development of Schultze powder, one of the first smokeless powders. Today, we will look at development...

In our last post , we studied some discoveries by Baron Von Lenk, who succeeded in developing a process to manufacture gun cotton in larger ...

In our last post, we learned that an Austrian officer, Wilhelm Freiherr Lenk von Wolfsberg, had come up with a method to produce gun cotton ...

In our last post , we saw how gun cotton was accidentally discovered. As was mentioned in our previous post, some early researches were done...

In today's post, we will study one of the earliest developments in smokeless powder technology: the invention of gun cotton . In 1832,...

In the last several months, we have studied the production of various forms of black powder in depth. The next series of posts will deal wit...

Many months ago, we talked about the development of the percussion lock . This was where the idea of striking a shock-sensitive substance wi...

When we left off in our last post , we saw that cartridges like .45-70 and .50-90 were named based on their caliber and the amount of black ...

In the last couple of posts, we studied the manufacturing techniques of black powder . In this post, we will study the next development of p...