Gunpowder : alchemy, bombards, and pyrotechnics : the history of the explosive that changed the world / Jack Kelly.
Kelly, Jack, 1949-
2004
TP272 .K45 2004 (Mapit)
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Title Gunpowder : alchemy, bombards, and pyrotechnics : the history of the explosive that changed the world / Jack Kelly.
Author Kelly, Jack, 1949-
ISBN 0465037186
Imprint New York : Basic Books, c2004.
Language English
Description x, 261 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number TP272 .K45 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 662/.26
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-250) and index.
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Prologue: the devil's distillate
Fire drug
Thundring noyse
The most pernicious arts
The devills birds
Villainous saltpetre
Conquest's crimson wing
Nitro-aerial spirit
No one reasons
What victory costs
History out of control
The meeting of heaven and earth
Appalling grandeur
The old article
Epilogue: something new.

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