Jumat, 08 September 2017

Clearing the Fog of War

In the late 1800s, countries raced to make smokeless gunpowder. The result changed the face of battle. The story of smokeless gunpowder begins in Switzerland, in the impeccable kitchen of Frau Schönbein. One fateful day in 1845, her husband, Christian, a professor of chemistry at the University of Basel, was absentmindedly toying with a vial …

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