caused me to write this probably unpopular essay. But, as far as white boys – gringos – like me go – and one might say I am a younger “elder” in FMA. I was even declared an “ambassador” of FMA by one of the largest FMA groups on the web, and having been ...
So the Wheezers and Dodgers invented a gun called the Holman Projector, the world's first true potato launcher. The Holman was a smooth bore, muzzle-loading gun connected by pipes to the ship's steam boiler instead of relying on gunpowder, which was always in short supply during the early...
It was widely used in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, the Americas, and Europe until the introduction of gunpowder. However, over two thousand years ago in China, the crossbow wasinvented as an innovation to the basic bow and arrow that extended the use of mechanical hand weapons throughou...
(called the Advanced Gun Weapon System Technology Program) was remarkably like the AGS’s 100-mile shell: a GPS and inertially guided 11-inch dart-shaped shell wrapped in a 16-inch peel-away jacket, or sabot, that would have been able to fly nearly as far without the rocket as...
Modern gunpowder is, like cordite, a smokeless propellant. (It’s also not very powdery; my father reloaded his own ammo and I was struck that gunpowder is more like little beads, like something a robot might eat atop its ice cream sundae. *crunch crunch crunch*) • Revolvers don’t ...
When did crossbows stop being used? From approximately the5th Century AD until AD 947, the crossbow appears to have faded from use. Little, if any, textual or archaeological evidence of the weapon has been found from that period. It was not until the sieges at Senlis (947) and Verdun (...