Part one of term paper
Gunpowder is the oldest of all explosives. It was used by the ancient Chinese, Arabs, and people of India first. But exact directions on how to make it were not known to the western World until 1242, when Roger Bacon of Oxford University, in England published a book in which he told the ways to make gunpowder. Today gunpowder is not ...

Part two of term paper
... early as thirteen forty-six. At that time, gunpowder was actually in powder form. It had to be loaded carefully into the cannon, so that the charge would be packed properly. If it were packed too tightly, the flame would not light the powder because it couldn't get enough oxygen. But if it were packed too loosely, it couldn't build up enough gas forces to push the cannonball to it's target. A new way to make gunpowder into grains, instead of powder, was invented in the fourteen hu ...