When You stop and think about it, it sounds rediculious.
You take a mixture of 15 parts Expensive Saltpeter, and three parts Sulfur, throw in 2 parts charcole,
add Water to make a paste. roll it out into this sheets, let dry, and grind into a fine powder.
Then you set it on fire to make a stinking smoke.
If fact it is so redicuilious, that it was only done once, in 600~800 AD, China.
Who or Why, is not known but by 200 years later it was in use in fireworks, and Fire Arrows.
100 years after that the first cannons appear in China.
It was discovered in the Laojun Mountain in southwestern China, which at the time was the centre of China's Saltpeter prodution.
So sometime between 600 ~800 AD a nameless Apprentice is given the task of grinding up and mixing a batch of ingrediances. while his Master & Family, work in a nearby room.
To lazy to go get the wooden motar and pestle, He uses the nearby metal one.
An hour later the House is gone up in Smoke, the Apprentice and the Master, along with the entire Family is dead.
Dead Along with them is the secrect of the mixture.
Now I don't expect Explosive never to be invented,
Nitro compounds will be developed eventually. but whe can delay them till the 19th century chemists get involved.
?What will be the result of no gunpower or explosives till the 1800's?
You take a mixture of 15 parts Expensive Saltpeter, and three parts Sulfur, throw in 2 parts charcole,
add Water to make a paste. roll it out into this sheets, let dry, and grind into a fine powder.
Then you set it on fire to make a stinking smoke.
If fact it is so redicuilious, that it was only done once, in 600~800 AD, China.
Who or Why, is not known but by 200 years later it was in use in fireworks, and Fire Arrows.
100 years after that the first cannons appear in China.
It was discovered in the Laojun Mountain in southwestern China, which at the time was the centre of China's Saltpeter prodution.
So sometime between 600 ~800 AD a nameless Apprentice is given the task of grinding up and mixing a batch of ingrediances. while his Master & Family, work in a nearby room.
To lazy to go get the wooden motar and pestle, He uses the nearby metal one.
An hour later the House is gone up in Smoke, the Apprentice and the Master, along with the entire Family is dead.
Dead Along with them is the secrect of the mixture.
Now I don't expect Explosive never to be invented,
Nitro compounds will be developed eventually. but whe can delay them till the 19th century chemists get involved.
?What will be the result of no gunpower or explosives till the 1800's?