Gunpowder

Name: Gunpowder
Brand: Perseus Books
SKU: 9780465037223
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Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics - The History of the Explosive That Changed the World

Autor: Jack Kelly

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Perseus Books

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

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When Chinese alchemists fashioned the first manmade explosion sometime during the tenth century, no...

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Autor

Jack Kelly

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2005

Stránek

272

EAN

9780465037223

ISBN

0465037224

Enbook ID

09232647

Vydavatel

Perseus Books

Hmotnost

316

Rozměry

141 x 215 x 16

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When Chinese alchemists fashioned the first manmade explosion sometime during the tenth century, no one could have foreseen its full revolutionary potential. Invented to frighten evil spirits rather than fuel guns or bombsneither of which had been thought of yettheir simple mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal went on to make the modern world possible. As word of its explosive properties spread from Asia to Europe, from pyrotechnics to battleships, it paved the way for Western exploration, hastened the end of feudalism and the rise of the nation state, and greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution. With dramatic immediacy, novelist and journalist Jack Kelly conveys both the distant time in which the devils distillate rose to conquer the world, and brings to rousing life the eclectic cast of characters who played a role in its epic story, including Michelangelo, Edward III, Vasco da Gama, Corts, Guy Fawkes, Alfred Nobel, and E. I. DuPont. A must-read for history fans and military buffs alike, Gunpowder brings together a rich terrain of cultures and technological innovations with authoritative research and swashbuckling style.

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