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An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional military explosives, such as an artillery shell, attached to a detonating mechanism. IEDs are commonly used as roadside bombs, or homemade bombs.
An explosive anti-materiel and counter-battery projectile, of iron with a cavity packed with a high explosive bursting charge of powder used to destroy enemy wagons, breastworks, or opposing artillery. Two types of fuses were used—impact fuses that detonated the bursting charge by percussion, and time fuse cut to length measured in seconds ...
Earliest known written formula for gunpowder, from the Wujing Zongyao of 1044 AD.. Gunpowder is the first explosive to have been developed. Popularly listed as one of the "Four Great Inventions" of China, it was invented during the late Tang dynasty (9th century) while the earliest recorded chemical formula for gunpowder dates to the Song dynasty (11th century).
Thomas Courtenay in the uniform of a Confederate Army captain. The coal torpedo was invented by Captain Thomas Edgeworth Courtenay of the Confederate Secret Service. [1] [2] During the Civil War, the term torpedo was used to indicate a wide range of explosive devices including what are now called land mines, naval mines, improvised explosive devices, and booby traps.
The first type of these was the Röchling shell. 1942 August Coenders: Germany: C4: A part of the Composition C family, a family of plastic explosives. 1956 Car bomb: A vehicle is packed with explosives and detonated. Cluster bomb: Over a hundred nations outlaw them now. The first one was Butterfly Bomb. Germany: General-purpose bomb
Madliena Fougasse in Malta [1]. A fougasse (UK: / f uː ˈ ɡ æ s /, US: / f uː ˈ ɡ ɑː s /) is an improvised mortar constructed by making a hollow in the ground or rock and filling it with explosives (originally, black powder) and projectiles.
Officials emphasized that if the explosive materials were ignited, "it would have leveled the entire block." 50 pounds of 'improvised' explosives found at 'bomb-making laboratory' inside ...
William Mills, a hand grenade designer from Sunderland, patented, developed and manufactured the "Mills bomb" at the Mills Munition Factory in Birmingham, England in 1915, designating it the No.5. It was described as the first "safe grenade". They were explosive-filled steel canisters with a triggering pin and a distinctive deeply notched surface.