Jack Kelly, a frequent contributor to Invention & Technology, explores the history of black powder in his book Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards & Pyrotechnics (Basic Books).
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Fall 2006
How the genetic code became a revolutionary tool for law enforcement
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Summer 2005
HOW TECHNOLOGY HAS ALWAYS HELPED COUNTERFEITERS—AND THEIR OPPONENTS
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Winter 2004
SCIENCE, PSEUDOSCIENCE, OR CON GAME? IT’S A LITTLE BIT OF EACH.
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Fall 2004
SAMUEL COLT’S REVOLVER CHANGED THE WORLD OF GUNS—AND THE REST OF THE WORLD TOO
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Fall 1999
The use of electricity to restore life goes back as far as the 1780s. Not until after World War II, though, did doctors start applying it systematically to save heart attack victims. Read >>
