With the help and guidance of Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at Royal Armouries in Leeds, Jonathan Ferguson, we fired a 16th Century replica arquebus, an 18th Century Brown Bess musket and finally ...

The manuscript contains a unique warning from Haas against using rockets for warfare. His translated words advise “for peace and no war, leaving the rifles calmly in storage,” underscoring his ...

In the same century that Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel and Shakespeare wrote "Richard III," German artillery experts were trying to master the art of strapping bombs to cats. A 16th ...

The trebuchet, a rotating arm with a sling attached to launch a projectile, has rarely been used since the 16th century ... of modern gunpowder artillery in the 15th century.