Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last post , we saw that by the 18th century, many countries had settled on a process of making black powder by first grinding the ing...

In our last couple of posts, we saw how people started to pulverize the ingredients of gunpowder together , in order to maintain a consiste...

In our last post, we saw how people started to manufacture corned black powder starting in the early 15th century . In today's post, we ...

In our last post, we looked at the manufacture of an early form of black powder called " serpentine powder ". As we noted previous...

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 looked into how black powder grains are classified by size and type in the US, from the 19th century onwards to the pr...

In our last post , we saw that the size of the black powder grains are a significant factor in the rate of combustion of the powder and ther...