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Researchers at the West Point Military Academy are studying historic gunpowder formulas from the medieval era … by firing them out of an actual cannon.
“Energetics analysis of medieval black powder”
Presented at ACS Spring 2024 on March 18, 2024
Presenter: Dawn Riegner, Ph.D.
Credits:
Written and produced by Kerri Jansen
Edited by Elaine Seward
Narrated by Allison Tau
Executive produced by Matthew Radcliff
Research videos and images from Dawn Riegner, Ph.D.; Clifford Rogers, Ph.D.; Maj. Justin Hunter; Lt. Col. Samuel Cowart
Additional video: Shutterstock
Music: “Timeless Serenity” by dvine and “Shadowed” by John B. Lund from Epidemic Sound
Sound effects: SoundSnap
Medieval sources:
“Büchsenmeisterbuch”
Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek
data.onb.ac.at/...
“War technology (Illuminated Manuscript)”
Zentralbibliothek Zürich
www.e-codices....
“Feuerwerkbuch von 1420”
Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
doi.org/10.115...
“Chroniques de Froissart”
Berlin Staatsbibliothek
copy by Paul Hermans via Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikime...
“Les Vigiles de Charles VII”
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
via Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikime...
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