Gunpowder : alchemy, bombards, and pyrotechnics : the history of the explosive that changed the world /
Kelly, Jack, 1949-
Gunpowder : alchemy, bombards, and pyrotechnics : the history of the explosive that changed the world / Jack Kelly. - New York : Basic Books, c2004. - p. cm.
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.
0465037186
2003025536
Gunpowder--History.
TP272 / .K45 2004
662/.26
Gunpowder : alchemy, bombards, and pyrotechnics : the history of the explosive that changed the world / Jack Kelly. - New York : Basic Books, c2004. - p. cm.
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.
0465037186
2003025536
Gunpowder--History.
TP272 / .K45 2004
662/.26