who created gunpowder?

Answer 1

The Chinese:
Warring States and Taoist Alchemists
Taoist alchemists were some of the most important contributors to the invention of Gunpowder. However, many different groups and individuals can be named as contributors to this invention. During the reign of Emperor Wu Di (156-87 B.C.) of the Han dynasty extensive research was done on Eternal life and some of the substances used by the alchemists were sulphur and saltpeter, and as a result many fires were started. Wei Boyang was a famous alchemist that wrote a book called Book of the Kinship of the Three with enormous amount of information. By the 8th century in the mid Tang dynasty, the potentialities of sulphur and saltpeter when combined with charcoal were realized as the alchemists discovered an explosive mixture which was called huoyao or gunpowder.

Answer 2

Who Created Gunpowder

Answer 3

Gunpowder advance into created A.D. 850 in China. Gunpowder advance into likely created via chinese language alchemists—people attempting to offer gold artificially, via mixing different components.the 1st use of chinese language gunpowder advance into in making fireworks. Later, the chinese language used it in crude cannons and exploding weapons. that's believed that the chinese language ultimately got here upon the appropriate proportions, which they utilized in primitive rockets.

Answer 4

It was the chinese
The facilitation of combustion by addition of saltpeter was discovered very early in China. An early record of Chinese alchemical experimentation comes from a Han era book The Kinship of the Three compiled in 142 A.D. by Wei Boyang where he recorded experiments in which a set of ingredients were said to "fly and dance" in a violent reaction. By 300 A.D., Ge Hong, an alchemist of the Jin dynasty conclusively recorded the chemical reactions caused when saltpeter, redwood and charcoal were heated together in his book "Book of the Master of the Preservations of Solidarity".A ninth-century record of Chinese experimentation with saltpetre, the "Classified Essentials of the Mysterious Tao of the True Origin of Things," indicates that saltpeter-aided combustion was an unintended byproduct of Taoist alchemical efforts to develop an elixir of immortality

Answer 5

The earliest clear, certain references to saltpetre explosives come from China. Joseph Needham argues that Chinese alchemists were probably the first to develop an early form of gunpowder, as part of their search for elixirs of immortality. He notes that only in China was there evidence of the precursors of black powder (Needham's 'proto-gunpowders' and early 'true gunpowders'), while in Europe, black powder is noted to appear suddenly and already relatively developed in recipes incorporating saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal (and early on, other adulterants).[5] Gunpowder is considered one of the Four Great Inventions of ancient China.

The word 'gunpowder', widely defined, should include all mixtures of saltpetre, sulphur and carbonaceous material; but any composition not containing charcoal, as for example those which incorporated honey, may be termed 'proto-gunpowder'. Our word gunpowder arises from the fact that Europe knew it only for cannon or hand-guns. In China, however prototype mixtures were known to alchemists, physicians and perhaps fireworks technicians, for their deflagrative properties, some time before they began to be used as weapons. Hence the Chinese name for gunpowder, huo yao, literally 'fire-chemical' or 'fire drug'.

Adoption of this definition and historical perspective places the invention of gunpowder in China, no later than the eleventh century. Use of the stricter definition offered by the Oxford English Dictionary, however, leaves the precise question of the time and place of gunpowder's invention open, because although the earliest clear, written reference to black powder by itself, without other ingredients, was by Roger Bacon in England in 1234, he seems to imply elsewhere that he did not invent it himself, and that the technology was already widespread in his time.[6] [7]

There is no direct record of how the modern formula for black powder was invented, or how it came to be known in Europe and Asia, but most scholars believe that saltpeter explosives developed into an early form of black powder in China, and that this technology spread west from China to the Middle East and then Europe, possibly via the Silk Road.[8][9][10] Bert S. Hall promotes the view that many cultures contributed to the development of gunpowder in its ultimate form.

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.

Answer 6

The Chinese invented gunpowder

Answer 7

It wasn't actually invented but was discovered by accident when the Chinese found when the ingredients mixed together, went bang.

Answer 8

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder

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Answer 9

The Chinese.

Answer 10

the chineese