Explorations: War and Peace: Chinese culture: Gunpowder
Duration: 7 mins 27 secs
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Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
The Chinese invented gunpowder some three or four centuries before it reached the West. Christopher Cullen watches a craftsman making gunpowder in China and participates in a demonstration of gunpowder propelled rockets. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-11 16:55 |
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| Collection: | A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off) |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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