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- Nov 07, 2020
Gunpowder Quotes
Words on an invention that changed the world.
Gunpowder quotes trace its outsized impact on history, comparing its force to the printing press and modern firearms alike. For more on lasting inventions, see History quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.
- Kitchen
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I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.
- Fling
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Bullets are fast - even a 9-millimeter handgun launches lead at Mach 1. And the bigger the bullet gets, the more grains of gunpowder it carries, the faster it goes. Modern rifles can fling the small pieces of metal at half the velocity needed to escape the gravitational pull of the Moon.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, the constraints of Chinese society and my personal timid and cautious nature both drove me to seek a means to go against control. Gunpowder has an inherent uncertainty and uncontrollability and is an important means for me to relieve myself of constraint.
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- Nov 07, 2020