Gunpowder, Explosives and the State: A Technological HistoryBrenda J. Buchanan Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 425 pagina's Gunpowder studies are still in their infancy despite the long-standing civil and military importance of this explosive since its discovery in China in the mid-ninth century AD. In this second volume by contributors who meet regularly at symposia of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), the research is again rooted in the investigation of the technology of explosives manufacture, but the fact that the chapters range in scope from the Old World to the New, from sources of raw materials in south-east Asia to the complications of manufacture in the West, shows that the story is more than the simple one of how an intriguing product was made. This volume is the first to develop the implications of the subject, not just in the sense of relating it to changing military technologies, but in that of seeing the securing of gunpowder supplies as fundamental to the power of the state and imperial pretensions. |
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Realities and Perceptions in the Evolution of Black Powder Making | 21 |
Gunpowder and its Applications in Ancient India | 42 |
A Commodity of Empire | 67 |
The Production of Saltpetre and Gunpowder in Europe | 91 |
Its History and Technological | 123 |
Saltpetre at the Intersection of Military and Agricultural | 142 |
Manufacturing and Testing | 158 |
The Overseas Transfer of Technology from Europe | 181 |
Élève des Poudres E I du Ponts Multiple Transfers of French | 230 |
The Smelting of Iron Cannons and Consumption | 266 |
British Munitions for Larger Guns | 303 |
Scientific Reasoning and the Empirical Approach at the Time | 343 |
On the Path from Black Powder to ANFO | 367 |
The Transformation of Royal DutchShell | 385 |
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Gunpowder Manufacture in Cairo from Bonaparte | 206 |
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