 | 1838 - 664 páginas
...first discovery of gunpowder originated in the primeval method of cooking food by means of wood fires, on a soil strongly impregnated with nitre, as it is in many parts of India and China. Some ports of the wood so employed would be converted into charcoal ; and, mixing with the nitrous... | |
 | Great Britain. War Office - 1863 - 216 páginas
...discovery of gunpowder might originate from " the primeval method of cooking food by means of wood " fires, on a soil strongly impregnated with nitre, as it is " in many parts of India and China." Now it cannot reasonably be supposed that the inflammable properties of saltpetre (nitre) could be... | |
 | Hythe certificates - 1879 - 202 páginas
...Governtona of saltpetre annually. hen were powder works first established •• means of a wood fire on a soil strongly impregnated with nitre ; as it is in many parts of India and China." Q. 168. — -Where and when was gunpowder first used in warfare? A. — At the siege of Mecca, AD 690.... | |
 | William Wellington Greener - 1885 - 826 páginas
...most ingenious theory respecting the invention of gunpowder is that of the late Henry Wilkinson : — soil strongly impregnated with nitre, as it is in...it ; and when the fires became extinguished, some portions of the wood partially converted into charcoal would remain, thus accidentally bringing into... | |
 | William Wellington Greener - 1907 - 830 páginas
...discovery of gunpowder might originate from the primaeval method of cooking food by means of wood fires on a soil strongly impregnated with nitre, as it is...preparing it ; and when the fires became extinguished some portions of the wood partially converted into charcoal would remain, thus accidentally bringing into... | |
 | William Wellington Greener - 1910 - 900 páginas
...discovery of gunpowder might originate from the primaeval method of cooking food by means of wood fires on a soil strongly impregnated with nitre, as it is...preparing it ; and when the fires became extinguished some portions of the wood partially converted into charcoal would remain, thus accidentally bringing into... | |
 | 1915 - 574 páginas
...discovery of gunpowder might originate from the primeval method of cooking food by means of wood fires, on a soil strongly impregnated with nitre, as it is...preparing it; and when the fires became extinguished, some portions of the wood partially converted into charcoal would remain, thus accidentally bringing into... | |
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It has always appeared to me highly probable that the first discovery of gunpowder might originate from the primaeval method of cooking food by means of wood fires on a soil strongly impregnated with nitre, as it is in many parts of India and China. It... 