Paper, another invention of the Chinese, made knowledge universally accessible to the masses. Will Achain change the blockchain world as gunpowder once changed warfare, or as paper changed the ...

No one knows exactly when gunpowder, a Chinese invention dating to the ninth century, arrived in the West. The English natural philosopher and cleric Roger Bacon described its formula—sulphur ...

‘Gunpowder was invented in the Song Dynasty (960 AD-1276 AD) in China. It is the mixture of potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal. People took these three things as medicines for illnesses in ...

In ancient China, gunpowder and gunpowder-based weapons were invented and widely used by military forces to dispel invasion at the borders.

The invention of the gunpowder propelled is popularly attributed to a monk named Li Tian in Liuyang. Liuyang is still a major center of the fireworks industry today, a thousand years later.

NEW KINDS OF GUNPOWDER; TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF MODERN WARFARE. VALUE OF THE INVENTION OF BROWN OR SLOW-BURNING POWDER--NOISELESS AND SMOKELESS POWDERS.

There are dozens, sometimes hundreds, on a page. They test, climb and celebrate inventions, including the creation of gunpowder, the mechanics of the camera lens and the evolution of the transistor.

Technology and Culture is the quarterly interdisciplinary journal of the Society for the History of Technology. The international journal publishes the work of historians, engineers, scientists, ...