... Ironically, it was a quest for immortality that led to the ... 850, Chinese alchemists instead discovered gunpowder. Their explosive invention would become...Mongols, historians believe. Explosive trade Gunpowder somehow remained a monopoly of...Age skirmishes. By 1350, rudimentary gunpowder cannons were commonplace in the...birth to the modern army. Gunpowder is still the basis for...

... message news:d08lv357lhgs7gvrflt6sqjgjl6dgko9l0@4ax.com... How Gunpowder Changed the World By Heather Whipps,... Ironically, it was a quest for immortality that led to the invention.... 850, Chinese alchemists instead discovered gunpowder. Their explosive invention would become the...the Mongols, historians believe. Explosive trade Gunpowder somehow remained a monopoly of the...

...Ironically, it was a quest for immortality that led to the ...850, Chinese alchemists instead discovered gunpowder. Their explosive invention would become...Mongols, historians believe. Explosive trade Gunpowder somehow remained a monopoly of...The Ottoman Turks also employed gunpowder cannons with abandon during their...pyrotechnicians pack a tube with gunpowder, colorizing chemicals and small pellets...

... Sir Frederick <mmcne...@fuzzysys.com> wrote: How Gunpowder Changed the World By Heather Whipps, ...://www.livescience.com//history/080407-hs-gunpowder.html When gunpowder was used to create personal ...> Wha? There was no infantry before gunpowder? I guess this is one of those ... of naive. I thought the history and immortality connection interesting. Just commenting from one or ...

...: Controlling explosions seems to be at the crux of developing technology. Gunpowder was certainly a major stepping stone that changed the world. Another was the combustible engine....7 class civilization presently. So, we've come a pretty good ways since the discovery of gunpowder. Not sure if these scales say anything about peak oil though :). http://en.wikipedia.org/...

"tooly" wrote... Controlling explosions seems to be at the crux of developing technology. Gunpowder was certainly a major stepping stone that changed the world. Gunpowder only changed man from hitting his fellow man with a club into hitting him with a projectile from the club. How ...

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:48:07 -0400, "tooly" <rdh11@bellsouth.net> wrote: Controlling explosions seems to be at the crux of developing technology. Gunpowder was certainly a major stepping stone that changed the world. Another was the combustible engine. These are two things that history too often treats as footnotes, and yet, think of how the world would be if neither of ...