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The INVENTION OF GUN-POWDER.-lhe
invention Of gunpowder and guns is
indisputably German, and is said to
have been produced in this manner:
One Barthoe Schwattz, learned fTiar
being one day engaged in making
chemical experiments, mixed salipetrc
and birthstone with other ingredients,
and set them cn fire in crucible; but
a spark getting into it, the pot sudden
ly broke, with great violence and noise
which events surprised him at first. but
he repeated the experiment, and find
ing the effect constant, set himself to
work to improve it-lor which purpose
he caused an iron pipe to be made,
with a small hole to fire at, and putting
in some Of his ingredients, together
with some small stones, set fire to IT,
and found that it answered his expecta
tions, in penetrating all before it. This
happened about the year 1880, and
was soon improved to the making OF
great ordnance, &c.


