Qurayying, Building of dams, they historically did dam and canal the Nile.
I feel like an idiot for asking this, but how is dam building going to be changed with blackpowder?
Qurayying, Building of dams, they historically did dam and canal the Nile.
How would this influence the developement of guns ? what would they look like especially when the Romans get them ?
The Greeks, according to some theories had a steam engine, but did not know what to do with it.
Alsdo, Chinese had gunpowder,and it didn't help against the Mongols
Don't you dare mention Heron's dastardly inventions in this respectable place!
I feel like an idiot for asking this, but how is dam building going to be changed with blackpowder?
I am sorry,i am new here,if this is some forum inside joke, please explain
Its going to be a lot easier and can be carried out on a larger scale.
But what exactly will they do with it? Considering that their technology is otherwise the same (at the point things start changing), what was possible OTL in say the 18th century might not be possible.
The Greeks, according to some theories had a steam engine, but did not know what to do with it.
Alsdo, Chinese had gunpowder,and it didn't help against the Mongols
But what exactly will they do with it? Considering that their technology is otherwise the same (at the point things start changing), what was possible OTL in say the 18th century might not be possible.
Well, if I'm building a dam, and I need rubble to fill it with but all I have is a big rocky hill somewhere, gunpowder would be a handy shortcut to making rubble. Or if I want to excavate quickly in stony ground, gunpowder would be a handy thing to have. All assuming the gunpowder exists and that someone has figured out what it can do. And that's without any otherwise advanced technology.
So even if we stipulate that metallurgy and chemistry take no other sudden leaps, we can see that the existence of just basic blackpowder would be a huge deal,
Cannons, again, are not viable until the advent of metal casting and even then it's unlikely to get em' to work.
Point.
This could be interesting.
Ed: I don't know about your dates, but...
"If Gunpowder cakes are fun to shoot at with fire arrows, and linen wrapped gunpowder cakes are fun to set on fire and throw… MUCH BIGGER Gunpowder cakes wrapped in linen and set on fire then hurled from a catapult is even MORE FUN! Except that the force from the catapult is so great that often the linen wrapped gunpowder cakes burst open, catch fire right above the catapult and explode, not always but sometimes.
Need a better way to make things blow up."
This seems very appropriate for how it evolves as a weapon. Which is to say, with a lot of problems and pyromaniacs.
Nor, with slave-labour, the inclination to go after it.Sure they did. They used it for opening temple doors and for party tricks. They didn't have the metallurgy to make much more with it.
Except that black powder needs to be compressed or it just burns fast. Perhaps a small pottery vessel filled with the stuff?
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It is sort of an inside joke, because it's mentioned so often here, yet had so very little potential. The aeliopile was much more like a tea kettle than a steam engine. It might have led to something useful in a few centuries.I am sorry,i am new here,if this is some forum inside joke, please explain