1000 years of weaponry and history (from about 900 AD to 1900 AD)
From China to the Middle East to Europe to America
Hundreds of historical images to travel through time
This video discusses that what gunpowder (black powder) is, what properties it has, how and where it was invented, what applications it found, what gunpowder weapons like fire arrows, rocket arrows, bombs, fire lances, hand cannons, cannons, muskets and rifles were and how they were developed and affected warfare, how gunpowder preparation was improved, how gunpowder ingredients could be acquired, how gunpowder revolutionized warfare, what historical significance of gunpowder was. In all, how discovery of one chemical reaction came to affect global history for about a millennium. This is interesting, isn’t it?!
00:00:10 Introduction
00:02:07 Gunpowder chemistry
00:07:57 Explosive nature, pros and cons
00:16:02 Invention
00:18:57 Utilization in pyrotechnics and warfare
00:24:17 Fire arrows and rockets
00:26:19 Bombs
00:29:27 Fire lances and eruptors
00:32:10 proto-guns vs. guns
00:34:58 Hand cannons/Muzzle-loading/Touch hole/Flash pan/Primer
00:38:47 Spread of gunpowder knowledge
00:41:37 Cannons/Early cannons/Bombards/Classical cannons
00:44:46 Cannons/Variations
00:47:57 Cannons/Low accuracy and range
00:50:16 the Magnus effect/Round shots
00:52:01 Rifling/Spin stabilization/Cylindro-conoidal shells
00:53:22 Revolution of classical cannons
00:55:50 Firearms/Matchlock/Arquebuses/Muskets
00:59:15 Matchlock/Wheellock/Flintlock/Caplock/Cartridge
01:04:15 Muskets’ characteristics and problems/Pike and shot/Bayonets/Line formation
01:06:57 Rifling/Early rifles
01:08:37 Muzzle-loading rifles/Expandable bullets/Minie balls/Rifled muskets
01:10:16 Single-shot breech-loading rifles
01:11:30 Multiple-shot breech-loading rifles/Repeating rifles/Magazines/Actions
01:14:20 Hand guns
01:15:02 Multiple-barrel guns/Gatling gun/Machine guns/Maxim gun/19th-century firearm revolution
01:17:55 Gunpowder preparation
01:25:40 Acquisition of gunpowder ingredients
01:33:22 Gunpowder Revolution
01:39:04 Gunpowder Revolution/Cannons/Castles and fortifications
01:42:23 Gunpowder Revolution/Firearms
01:45:02 Gunpowder Revolution/Mounted troops
01:49:11 Gunpowder Revolution/Naval warfare
01:52:29 Gunpowder and global history
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