Explore the historical journey of gunpowder, tracing its origins in China to its emergence as a critical global technology.

Premium docs specialist Lightbox is moving into drama with Gunpower Siege, a scripted series for Sky History in the UK that promises to reveal the gripping truth behind the Gunpowder Plot. Chuku Modu ...

A novelist and popular history writer, Kelly traces the history of gunpowder from 10th-century China to the late 19th century, when it was supplanted by Alfred Nobel's nitroglycerin. Kelly takes ...

There are few events that can overshadow the invention of black powder in China and its change of our civilization. The discovery of combining a mixture of sulfur, charcoal and potassium nitrate ...

Prologue: the devil's distillate -- Fire drug -- Thundring noyse -- The most pernicious arts -- The devills birds -- Villainous saltpetre -- Conquest's crimson wing -- Nitro-aerial spirit -- No one ...