The deadly irony of gunpowder - Eric Rosado
The deadly irony of gunpowder - Eric Rosado
TED-Ed Lesson: In the mid-ninth century, Chinese chemists, hard at work on an immortality potion, instead invented gunpowder. They soon found that this highly inflammable powder was far from an elixir of life -- they put it to use in bombs against Mongol invaders, and the rest was history. Eric …