This was invented in 1886 and fired smokeless cartridges. However, it had a very big practical design flaw; it had to be loaded in a nose to tail fashion. This resulted in slow loading as the operator had to be wary of one round hitting the primer of the cartridge in front which caused a most unwelcome explosion.…
| Gunpowder was invented by the Chinese. The first fireworks were probably made by stuffing _____gunpowder__________ into some _______ bamboo _______ sticks.…
Turning gunpowder into artillery or into firearms was an expensive hobby. Those who could not create gunpowder for themselves were forced to purchase some form of it or risk falling behind the military world. Once inventors were able to produce extensive uses for gunpowder, powerful nations and emperors began paying for vast amounts of cannon fire, gunpowder, muskets, bayonets, and all the means to maintain and repair these assets. Being that the rich employed the inventors, the rich took credit for the inventions! This meant that if someone wanted to buy the new musket, they had to buy it from the nation or emperor, not the inventor!…
Both East Asia and the Middle East and Byzantium were similar in their use and development of projectile weapons. The Byzantine Empire developed a very powerful, projectile weapon called Greek fire. It was mainly used in naval warfare, and essentially could burn while floating on water for very extensive periods of time. This weapon was exclusive to the Byzantine people and has been lost with them. Gunpowder was also first developed in China. Gunpowder could be used to fuel the first guns, which while simple at the time, were deadly to the rest of the world. This idea spread through trade to the Islamic people, and later the rest of the world, transforming warfare for the rest of time.…
1. Can the federal government regulate the possession of a machine- gun that was made wholly within Pennsylvania and was never part of interstate commerce?…
Over 800 years ago the world was intrigued by the discovery of gunpowder. The mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal sparked creation in the minds of many for the use of the invention. Gunpowder became commonly used across the Old World in cannons and the one of the world’s first firearms, the hand cannon. The hand cannon was actually not…
The first movable-type printer were carved blocks, and each carved block represented a single and a specific page. The facts prove not only that China invented block printing and clay movable type printing. Movable-type printing developed very quickly throughout time. Gunpowder changes our lives in many ways like killing animals and creating entertainment such as fireworks, just imagine what life would be like if we didn’t have gunpowder. Gunpowder was invented by Hei Boyang and actually he made gunpowder on accident.…
In the 1870s Colt’s Manufacturing Company was making new models. For example in 1872 the company began to manufacture its first breech-loaded revolver, which used self-contained metallic cartridges. After that between 1873 and 1941, Colt’s Manufacturing Company produced more than 350,000 Single Action Army Revolvers and 40,000 .45 Caliber bullets with it.…
Gunpowder is one of the revolutionary Chinese inventions that has greatly changed the modern world. Gunpowder is mainly used to fuel military weapons, such as bombs and guns. Gunpowder was first introduced during the Song and Mongol periods where it was developed and used by the Chinese to overthrow the Mongols. After gunpowder’s introduction, alchemists recorded the formula for gunpowder and developed the first weapon that used gunpowder, which was the flamethrower. “In 850 CE, during the tong dynasty, alchemists recorded a formula for gunpowder…. And in the 10th century, the Chinese made the first weapon that used gunpowder, the flamethrower,” (History Alive, 200). Gunpowder was first developed by alchemists, people…
Throughout the years, China is recognized for their huge mainland as opposed to Japan. China has more population than Japan. China has used their lands for agricultural purposes. Both countries were isolated until the 1500s when Europeans arrived. "These two Asian nations--one of the world's most populous country, the other the world's third most powerful economic entity" (Challenge China and Japan p.1). China and Japan are located in the same continent separated by islands both of them produce many export goods. China focuses in exports mainly for their workforce. "Japan was to be China's modernizing (west)" (China eyes Japan p.30). On the other hand, Japan uses their technology to boost…
Compare and contrast the responses to Western Penetration in China and Japan in the 19th century.…
The TA will use the video “Beyond the Great Wall” as an example in the tutorials January 17.…
The most notable weapon to appear was the most deadly weapon of the 20th century, the machine gun. It was designed in America in 1884 by an inventor named Hiram M. Maxim. This was the first automatic machine gun and was approximated as being worth between 60 to 100 single shot rifles. The machine gun was showed to the British and German high commands who copied the design in 1889 to create…
However, it was under the rule of the T'ang Dynasty, about 700 AD, that people began to use gunpowder. T'ang Dynasty emperors used gunpowder to put on great fireworks displays. By 904 AD, Chinese inventors saw that you could also use gunpowder for a powerful weapon. First the army used gunpowder in the form of rockets. They put small stone cannonballs inside bamboo tubes and shot the cannonballs out by lighting gunpowder at one end. This is the same idea that makes guns and cannons work today. The Chinese emperors tried to keep their discovery secret, but by the 1100s AD their secret had gotten out, and people in the Islamic Empire and then the Roman Empire began to understand how to use gunpowder for weapons. After that, it wasn't long before people in Europe also learned how to use gunpowder. We aren't sure exactly how they found out, but it might have something to do with the Third Crusade. By 1216, AD, a monk named Roger Bacon in England described gunpowder as a weapon. He thought of it as something that came from foreign places. Unfortunately for the people of West Africa, they hadn't heard about gunpowder yet when European people attacked them in the 1400s AD, which is one reason the Europeans were able to defeat them. Gunpowder was quickly put to use by the reigning Sung dynasty against the Mongols, whose constant invasions into the country plagued the Chinese throughout the period. The Mongols had enough of this. Therefore, they captured the Chinese alchemist so they too could master this lethal…
Guns started in China about one thousand years ago, but have been evolved in order to be more efficient in the amount and quality of ammunition shot as well as the accuracy and power of the guns. Gun use in America began when the nation was first colonized. The purpose of the guns were to help the colonists with gathering pelts and food, and defending them from attacks. Older guns were equipped with ammunition that was loaded into the gun from the muzzle, giving them their nickname muzzle loaders, and the hammer on the gun struck a flash pan that held gunpowder. These guns, known as muskets, have since been upgraded enough to have more advanced guns such as a Mossberg five hundred or an AR fifteen.…
