When gunpowder was used to create personal handguns and rifles, a new type of soldier was created: infantry. Photo shows a Revolutionary War reenactment at Fort Ward Historic Site in Alexandria, Virginia. (Image credit: Igor Vorobyov, Dreamstime) Each Monday, this column turns a page in ...
orstocks. When shot, an arrow, orbolt, traveled down a groove or through a notch in the tiller. Both styles also incorporated devices to make drawing the string easier. One common device was astirrupat the front of the crossbow.
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As we all know,The Compass(指南针),Gunpowder(火药),Papermaking,and Printing are our Chinese great inventions.Our ancestors(['ænsɛstɚ]祖先)created them by their own mind and hand.These inventions not only have an effect on our daily life,but also contribute to the culture all aroud...
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The second reason has to do with the thrill of watching things blow up. Some people have a fascination with things like explosions and car wrecks. When you were growing up, there might have been a kid in your neighborhood who learned how to make gunpowder. And that kid probably built bigg...
There are many great inventions in ancient China,such as paper, gunpowder and kites. The firstversion of paper was created in the Xi Han Dynasty but it wasn't widely used because it was too hard towrite on. So Cai Lun improved the method of making it. He made paper from bark, hemp...
The flintlock was quite an accomplishment! The basic goal of the flintlock is simple: to create a spark that can light the gunpowder stored in the barrel of the gun. To create this spark, the flintlock uses the "flint and steel" approach. The idea behind flint and steel is ...
Soon after this sort of weaponry came into use, it was eclipsed by another pyrotechnic technology: gunpowder. Over the next thousand years, gunpowder revolutionized the world of warfare, and flamethrowers more or less fell by the wayside. But as we'll see in the next section, flamethrowers ...
The last day of the year was also when the landlord came by to collect the yearly rent for farmers' land. Peasants who managed to pay it had reason to celebrate [source: Gao]. Before gunpowder was invented, they made loud noises by tossing sections of bamboo into a fire -- the heat ...