Firearms History, Technology & Development

In the previous several posts, we have studied several aspects of black powder manufacturing. But what about the factories themselves? In t...

In the last several posts, we've studied about the development of black powder . In today's post, we will study another type of powd...

In our last few posts, we saw some developments in compressed black powder technology , prismatic powders and pebble powders . In today...

A couple of posts ago, we saw why larger grain black powders were more suitable for larger guns and artillery , and studied two powders that...

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, ...