Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 209
^. 1^, ^. V … Fig. 79.—Krupps Works, at Essen, Prussia. FIRE-ARMS. THE invention of gunpowder—or rather its use in war—appears at firstsight a device little calculated to promote the general progress ofmankind. But it has been pointed out by some historians that the intro-duction of gunpowder into Europe brought…
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