Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last post, we looked at how instructions by Professor Joseph LeConte enabled the Confederate States of America to obtain saltpeter . ...

In our last post, we studied the early history of saltpeter and gunpowder manufacturing in the United States . Where we last left off was wh...

In today's post, we will look at the early history of saltpeter production in the US. When the early colonists from England arrived in...

In our last couple of posts, we saw the basics of saltpeter extraction  and also an insight into the bacterial and chemical processes invol...

In our last post , we studied one of the techniques of producing saltpeter. We did promise there that we will study another method using nit...

In our last post, we studied the components of gunpowder and noted that the key one was potassium nitrate, whose source was from saltpeter....

In our last post, we looked into the specialized profession of Saltpeter Men . Which brings us to another important topic of study, to which...