When were guns invented and who invented them?

Answer 1

Guns, were invented in 1852, by Samuel Colt. it all happened Quite by accident. at the time Colt was working on another invention, the exploding ink pen.

Answer 2

The Chinese did invent gunpowder, They used them in Rockets, but the actual first guns were a European invention.

One of the first is a device called a Petard, it was a stubby cannon that you had to run up an place against a door and the gun going off would blow the door or wall open. Many times taking the operator out in the process as well.

I have not been able to find definitive proof, but there is a very good possibility that either the Italians or Portuguese created the first guns.

The first "Official" Guns appeared in the 1400s. but a more primitive one is recorded as appearing around 1364.

Answer 3

Who actually invented the first 'firearm' is lost to history. About 1300AD, the mention and use of what we would consider a firearm is mentioned in both Italian and British history. 1388AD is the first British mention of the word 'hand gun'.
The Chinese seem to have invented gun powder and in 904 a treastise by Siui Tung mentioned the mixture commonly used as black powder in later centuries.

Answer 4

The first 'gun' was invented by the Chinese over 1000 years ago. If you use the definition of a 'a device that uses an explosive charge to launch a projectile'.

Answer 5

Guns were invented back in the 1400's by the Chinese. In fact, they were discovered by accident, when they were trying to invent new farming methods!

Answer 6

Gunpowder was invented by the Chinese in the eighth century AD. i assume the guns themselves where invented a while later.

Answer 7

Chinese and contrary to the answer about S. Colt in 1852 this person is wrong as firearms were in use long before this time period or how could we have won Independence from England.

one of the first common forms of firearms were the matchlocks.

Answer 8

Gunpowder was invented in China and is considered one of the Four Great Inventions of ancient China.

Gunpowder was the first known chemical explosive and propellant.[1] An early record of gunpowder comes from a Chinese Han era book "The Kinship of the Three" compiled in A.D. 142 by Wei Boyang, where he recorded experiments in which a third set of ingredients were said to "fly and dance" in a violent reaction. We cannot be sure if the mix was an early combination of gunpowder but up until more recent centuries, no other combination of naturally occurring materials had produced reactions of such a violent nature. We do however, know that by A.D. 300, Ge Hong, an alchemist of the Jin dynasty conclusively recorded the chemical reactions caused when saltpetre, pine resin and certain carbonaceous materials were heated together in his book "Book of the Master of the Preservations of Solidarity". [2] Another early record of gunpowder, a Chinese book from c. 850 A.D. called "Classified Essentials of the Mysterious Tao of the True Origin of Things," indicates that gunpowder was a byproduct of Taoist alchemical efforts to develop an elixir of immortality:[3]

Some have heated together sulfur, realgar and saltpeter with honey; smoke and flames result, so that their hands and faces have been burnt, and even the whole house where they were working burned down.[4]

The Chinese first used gunpowder in warfare in 904 A.D., as incendiary projectiles called "flying fires." (These were invented during the Tang Dynasty and were originally used for fireworks.) The use of gunpowder was soon expanded to making explosive grenades hurled from catapults. The third step was to use gunpowder as a propellant. The first such use was recorded in 1132 in experiments with mortars consisting of bamboo tubes. Mortars with metal tubes (made of iron or bronze) first appeared in the wars (1268-1279) between the Mongols and the Song Dynasty.[5]

Gunpowder spread to the Arabs in the 13th century.[6]

There is no direct record of how gunpowder came to be known in Europe. Most scholars believe that the knowledge spread west from China to the Middle East and then Europe, possibly via the Silk Road.[7][8][9] Other historians believe that gunpowder was probably discovered independently by different cultures at different times, as James Partington writes in his History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder:

Gunpowder is not, of course, an 'invention' in the modern sense, the product of a single time and place; no individual's name can be attached to it, nor can that of any single nation or region. Fire is one of the primordial forces of nature, and incendiary weapons have had a place in armies' toolkits for almost as long as civilized states have made war.

In Europe, the first written mention of the composition of gunpowder in express terms was in Roger Bacon's "De nullitate magiæ" at Oxford in 1216. [10] In Bacon's "De Secretis Operibus Artis et Naturae" in 1248, he states:

We can, with saltpeter and other substances, compose artificially a fire that can be launched over long distances... By only using a very small quantity of this material much light can be created accompanied by a horrible fracas. It is possible with it to destroy a town or an army ... In order to produce this artificial lightning and thunder it is necessary to take saltpeter, sulfur, and Luru Vopo Vir Can Utriet.

The last part is probably some sort of coded anagram for the quantities needed. In the "Opus Maior" he describes firecrackers around 1267: "a child’s toy of sound and fire made in various parts of the world with powder of saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal of hazelwood."[11] The confusion of these two references have led to many widespread misunderstandings about Bacon and Gunpowder.

The process of "corning" black powder was a further important improvement, and was developed in Europe probably during the late 14th century.[12] Corning involves forcing damp powder through a sieve to form it into granules which harden when dry, preventing the component ingredients of gunpowder from separating over time, thus making it far more reliable and consistent. It also allowed for better ignition, as the granules allowed for air pockets in between granules.

Answer 9

I'm guessing it was the Chinese, since they invented gunpowder.

Answer 10

I DON'T KNOW BUT HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SHOT