Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last post, we studied the invention of compressed black powder by General Thomas Rodman of the US Army. While this idea had sound th...

In today's post, we will look at a form of powder that was used during the Civil War, called compressed powder . The origin of this powd...

In our last post , we saw how black powder that had absorbed some moisture in the field, could be reworked to become useful again. However, ...

In our last post, we looked at different types of containers that black powder was shipped in , in the 19th century. A stack of powder...

In our last post, we talked about the packing process of black powder in the 19th century. However, that post went a little easy on details...

In the last few posts , we have studied the process of manufacturing corned black powder in the nineteenth century. Today, we will study the...

In our last post, we studied what goes on in the finishing process of manufacturing black powder , namely some more dusting, blending and s...