Gunroom
Jan 19, 2022
2 minutes
Bill Harriman
During the first two decades of the 19th century, the force of pressure-sensitive explosives — usually fulminates of metals — had been harnessed to act as the priming for propellant charges in guns. That said, they had been known about for at least 150 years. Samuel Pepys describes one in his diary on 11 November 1663:
“Up and to my office all the morning, and at noon to the
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