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 saw how Sicily was slowly losing dominance in the sulfur trade and how Britain became a major sulfur producer using th...

In our last post , we saw how sulfur was extracted and purified in Italy (mainly Sicily) and then further purified in England for the purpos...

In our last post , we saw how the Chinese extracted sulfur from pyrites (fool's gold) and used it in gunpowder. In some parts of the wor...

In our last couple of posts, we looked at some historical methods used to produce charcoal , one of the key ingredients of black powder . In...