Scientists in China during the Song Dynasty experimenting to find an elixir to grant immortality instead invented one the most deadly weapon: gunpowder. Gunpowder is the most negative invention not by creation, but by use. It is the basis for every weapon since it's invention and has more deaths attributed to it than the atomic bomb. Gunpowder has created more problems than it has solved. I concede not all uses of gunpowder are malicious. Fireworks are a prime example of how it can be used as an enjoyable and harmless medium. Gunpowder has also made it easier to hunt and kill animals to sustain life. However, it is never the proper and good-intended uses that create negative impacts. The misuse and abuse of gunpowder have lead to it being the most negative invention ever. Gunpowder has always been an extremely volatile substance. When invented, the scientists kept notes about how it caught on fire, burned several of them, and even burned their research center down. Even the most innocent use, fireworks, has resulted in thousands of deaths when factories have malfunctions and catch on fire, or worse, explode. …show more content…
The most common use of gunpowder also lends to it's name: weaponry. It changed war methods from typically close, hand-to-hand combat to impersonal battles fought over distances. In it's most primitive form, it was put on the tips of arrows to shoot fire at distant enemies. It went on to facilitate the advancement of modern warfare as it's uses were discovered, from projectile cannons to single-shot muskets, handheld guns, and finally machine guns. War casualties soared with the use of guns and the newfound ease of taking lives, which is clearly a negative impact in and of
Soldiers were able to fight at much larger distances and with the invention of repeating rifles they were able to fire more bullets in a shorter amount of time. This caused army generals to have to rethink battle plans and come up with new strategies to avoid
In a Beacon School, located in NYC, two-tenth - graders were seriously injured, leaving a boy with critical burns and another student with fewer server burns from her neck, head, and arm. Anna Peole, chemistry teacher was showing a “demonstration of rainbow flames” which will result burning of 4 different kinds of nitrates in separate crucibles in the classroom. However, the unstable amount of methyl alcohol hazes around the chemistry lab and explodes across the lab table surrounding Alonzo Yanes, a sophomore at the Beacon School. Alonzo Yanes was standing a few feet away from the lab table, where the crucibles were.
Is gunpowder one of the most influential parts that changed warfare? Warfare has changed a lot through the years gunpowder was able to change right along with it, they kept creating new weapons to adapt to the new style of warfare. There are many different things that changed warfare throughout our history, however gunpowder was one of the most effective and deadliest one. Gunpowder was created back around A.D. 850 by Chinese scientists. It was made by using the oxidizing agent potassium nitrate.
Jared Diamond in his book titled Guns, Germs, and Steel tells about certain places in the world having more geographic luck than others and thus causing them to prosper. During the Civil War the North and the South were warring over state rights and slavery issues. While the industrial revolution fueled the creation of new inventions such as the steam engine, the south refused capitalize upon these new creations. When the North grew and continued to grow in its industrial strength, they began to make themselves a world power, causing the South to continue to mostly produce cotton and several other agricultural crops. The South didn’t provide many new technologies which limited there economic effect on trade and production.
Many groups of people without prior experience or training packed gunpowder kegs in the buildings and ignited a fuse. In a short while, the explosions began causing injury to people and blazing debris which in turn ignited the adjacent buildings. At this point, Damrell was forced to stop the use of gunpowder to quench the fire (Sammarco,
Have you ever wondered what happens when a gun fires? I have been hunting for almost all my life and I have started to wonder about this. For my science fair project I 'm going to find the reaction of explosions. I also find this interesting because I want to make guns someday. I believe that understanding the Chemistry and Physics of explosions may help me to find the answer to my question.
Innovative weaponry had a large impact on the Revolutionary War. A weapon is a tool designed to inflict bodily harm or physical damage. During the Revolutionary War weapons had to be improved to insure victory. There was a variety of weapons used by the British and the Americans in the Revolutionary War. The innovation of weapons in the Revolutionary War was important, including the Brown Bess, the invention or rifling, and the Kentucky Rifle.
Gunpowder changed warfare, not only in America, but all over the world. Although, gunpowder was not invented in the U.S., it made a great impact on the country. Despite the fact that gunpowder was invented in 904 AD (Max Distro, 2013), different weapons were used before the gunpowder ages. An example of a prominent weapon used is the longbow.
Although, some of the technology failed in its ineffectiveness, other technological innovations such as weaponry and communicative devices not only caused bloodier wars, but such innovative advancements have also influenced the results of the Civil War. In order to understand the significance of technological innovation, one must know the different kinds of advanced technology such as the tools the people used for combat, communication, transportation, and survival. The Union and the Confederates used weaponry such as guns, rockets, grenades, and mines for better accuracy and efficient shooting. They also used warships and floodlights for sinking and searching other ships.
So many technological advancements were created and those advancements helped with what we have today. The weapons, vehicles, and machines helped modernize war and shaped how we live
Although the American Civil War is normally seen as something that threatened to tear our great country apart, their are many great inventions and innovations that resulted from this time. Some of these advancements include railroads, the telegraph, long-range weapons, and the ancestor of all machine guns, the gatling gun. Many of these inventions went on to play a huge role in how the civil war played out. While others, such as the cotton gin, had minimal effect on the war, but a direct effect on both the men in service, and the people back home. Early war technology was seen as very dull, and ineffective.
In modern society, guns are seen as a form of control. Those who have guns are able to overpower those who do not. This trend was set when guns were first invented and has stayed the same throughout history. The one place where guns are not a symbol of power and control is in literature, specifically “The Old Gun” and Hamilton. In Mo Yan’s short story “The Old Gun”, the protagonist is a hungry boy who does not even know how to use the titular firearm.
World War I. America needed an advantage to beat Germany and their allies. So a true patriot created one of the first assault weapon and named it the Thompson submachine gun. The weapon would of made a big difference on the war ,but it was created when the war was over. So gangsters acquired the weapons and killed many lives. New assault weapons came and ended more lives.
"A battery of artillery is worth a thousand muskets. " A battery is equal to twelve cannons and has the same results as 1,000 muskets. Which would you rather use? Advancements in weaponry brought about changes in the types of weapons that soldiers used in fighting the Civil War.
#3 GTA Causes Shootings? Violent video games are currently being attacked for their possible influence of public shootings. Video games have been becoming more popular over time, and the often have been containing very violent, delinquent behavior, which a lot of people play. Recently, the case of video game-influence shootings has risen has drawn attention to many studies and debates whether or not video games are the true causes of these shooting acts, because of how violent some of them can be. Some of these shooters such as the columbine shooters were known to be invested or even addicted to these violent games, and that is the main target people suspect is the problem.