Post by silverdragon on Apr 5, 2016 8:55:10 GMT
Cyber just made an excellent point..... and I have got to reply to it.
You have a point....
Early powder provided more of a "push" rather than a blast.
Perhaps we need to look at all of the recent threads in this section "With new eyes", in that the powder being used was maybe less than a quarter as powerful as the humble black-powder we expect today?... maybe even less?.. and in the case of confined rocketry, they engineered it to a slow-burn rather than explosion?...
The muth is that all gunpowder is the same, and obviously it aint, so, with the rash of new threads opening in the last 24hrs and onwards, maybe a quick discussion on what power you could expect from early gunpowder is needed?...
The myth here is that did it contain half, quarter, less or more than early "black powder" that the europeans got hold of?...
Did they have many recipes for different powders dependant on the use?...
Back from early Asian origins, who had it first?.. China, Korea, Japan?.
I see early Arabic scroll translations holding something like a few dozen recipes for gunpowder.
Did they have more control of what they used and tailored each one to work with what they were using it for?..
The original types of "cannon" used in China were basically pots that fired arrows or spears. Keep in mind that the power used was of low quality, trying the same thing with later types of powder would turn the arrow or spear into splinters. As MB showed trying to fire a wooden peg leg out of a cannon in one of the pirate specials.
Early powder provided more of a "push" rather than a blast.
Perhaps we need to look at all of the recent threads in this section "With new eyes", in that the powder being used was maybe less than a quarter as powerful as the humble black-powder we expect today?... maybe even less?.. and in the case of confined rocketry, they engineered it to a slow-burn rather than explosion?...
The muth is that all gunpowder is the same, and obviously it aint, so, with the rash of new threads opening in the last 24hrs and onwards, maybe a quick discussion on what power you could expect from early gunpowder is needed?...
The myth here is that did it contain half, quarter, less or more than early "black powder" that the europeans got hold of?...
Did they have many recipes for different powders dependant on the use?...
Back from early Asian origins, who had it first?.. China, Korea, Japan?.
I see early Arabic scroll translations holding something like a few dozen recipes for gunpowder.
Did they have more control of what they used and tailored each one to work with what they were using it for?..
