"The Evolution of Firearms" - Episode 1 - Matchlocks to Flintlocks

its funny how documentaries like this were super boring in school, but now i find myself bingewatching these lmfao

These are the type of documentaries I miss these days. It's a real history lesson.

“Before there could be guns, there first must be gunpowder” a lot deeper than it should be

0:50 The lion is like 'oh shit, they got guns.'

Evil does not reside in the GUN, it resides in the heart of the person who uses it.

First known firing of any type of gun in England was 1304, the English fired a Kraken, short barrell on a pole at the Scots. First illustration of a piece of ordnance occurs in a treatise by one Walter de Millemete entitled De Officiis Regum (On the Duties of Kings). Dated 1326, it is preserved in the library of Christ Church, Oxford. The gun was called a vaso from the Italian for a vase which it closely resembled. The Gunner is pictured in the act of firing the piece by inserting a red-hot iron into the vent. The projectile leaving the muzzle was a species of arrow known as a dart, carreau or quarrel. The gun has no carriage; it simply lies on a trestle table in this drawing and others they are aimed at doorways. In 1346 the English were using tubes fixed on a rack, called a Ribaldequin, loaded with gunpowder and lead pellots at the French at the Battle of Crecy 1399 Richard 11 took Pole Guns on his invasion of Ireland, not known how many but there were 35 Handgonnes were recorded to be in the Tower of London at the time. As a point of reference firearms were not recorded a Muskets untill 1527, first record of a matchlock musket. At this time guns started to be named after Birds of Prey, Falcon Saker, Robin and Musquette (French for a Male Sparrowhawk) which is where we got the word Musket.

Gunpowder ingredients: 1. Coal (it is the fuel, but will not burn fast enough), so you add.... 2. Sulfur (to accelerate burning), but now it's so fast that the air is not enough to it, 3. Saltpeter (potassium nitrate, KNO3) --> to provide oxygen for the rapid burning;

Last time I was this early the colonies were still under British rule!

Gotta love the original content you guys put out

I love history. Real history

Just amazing👍

funny how the chinese were searching for immortality and found the thing that took you away from life with a single spark

Excellent presentation; thank you...

Awesome 👍👍👍👍

Thank you!

This is really well made

Awesome

It should be noted that these German gunsmiths learned hiw to make rifles in Europe. The Germans and other European armies employed jaeger units armed with rifles before the Revolution., and Hessian mercenaries like my ancestors operated as jaegers during that war.

Narrator said about gunpowder, "foul smelling black smoke". I love the smell of gunpowder smoke.

RIP David Carradine. He was a great narrator as was Charlton Heston.