Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last post , we studied one physical property (density) that was used by people to judge black powder quality. Today we will study ano...

In our last post , we looked at some of the physical properties (color, grain solidity, grain size etc.) that powder manufacturers would loo...

In the last several weeks, we have taken a detailed look at the manufacturing process for black powder. In today's post, we will look at...

In our last post , we looked at a common black powder substitute: pyrodex . In today's post, we will look at other black powder substitu...

A few posts earlier , we saw a mention of something called " black powder substitute ". We will study more about this topic in tod...

In our last post , we studied how early gunpowder factories were often located in the middle of towns in the early days of firearms. Of cour...

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