Gunpowder : the history of an international technology / edited by Brenda J. Buchanan

PART I. THE EVOLUTION AND EARLY HISTORY OF POWDER MAKING. 1. The evolution of the process of powder making from and American perspective / Robert A. Howard (USA). 2. The origin a rockets in China / Jixing Pan (China). 3. The role of the Mongols in the introduction of gunpowder and firearms in South Asia / Iqtidar Alam Khan (India). 4. Das Feuerwerkbuch: its importance in the early history of black powder / Gerhard W. Kramer (Germany). 5. The Royal Armouries "Firewark Book" / Sarah Barter Bailey (UK). 6. The corning of gunpowder and the development of firearms in the Renaissance / Bert S. Hall (Canada). 7. Gunpowder and early gunpowder weapons / Kelly DeVries (USA). 8. Fireworks for the community: the use of windpower and simple techniques in Galicia / Begoña Bas (Spain). PART II. THE DEVELOPMENT AND DIFFUSSION OF GUNPOWDER TECHNOLOGY. 9. Gunpowder for the defence of a city: Sopron from the sixteenth century / Jenö Ruhmann (Hungary). 10. The saltpetre boilers of the Swedish Crown / Bengt Ahslund (Sweden). 11. The manufacture of gunpowder in Spain and Latin America from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries / Ignacio González Tascón, Juan Carlos Jiménez Barrientos, Dolores Romero Muñoz and Amaya Sáenz Sanz (Spain). 12. Black powder in mining, its introduction, early use, and diffusion over Europe / Heinz Walter Wild (Germany). 13. The production and consumption of gunpowder at the Kongsberg Silver Mines, 1734-1865 / Björn Ivar Berg (Norway). 14. Metting standards: Bristol powdermakers in the eighteenth century / Brenda J. Buchanan (UK). 15. The deterioration of gunpowder and some of the methods that were used to combat it / W. S. Curis (UK). 16. The organization of gunpowder production in France, 1775-1830 / Patrice Bret. PART III. POWDER MAKING IN ITS PRIME. 17. From Rumford to rodman: the sicentific study of the physical characteristics of gunpowder in the first part of the nineteenth century / Seymour H. Mauskopf (USA). 18. John Cyrus Martin and Australian gunpowder in the 1860s / Ian D. Rae (Australia). 19. Living dangerously: gunpowder and other explosives in Victoria, Australia, in the nineteenth century / Peter Milner (Austraila). 20. Gunpowder production in the Electorate and the Kingdom of Hanover / Olaf Mubmann (Germany). 21. The gunpowder mill at Spandau / Manfred P. Schulze (Germany). 22. The Royal Gunpowder Factory at Waltham Abbey: the field archaeology of gunpowder manufacture / Paul Everson and Wayne Cocroft (UK). 24. One hundred years of the Russian smokeless (nitrocellulose) powder industry / Ivan Ivanovitch Vernidub (Russia).