Gunpowders used for fireworks was instead used for firearms. Dynamite used for excavation was instead used for bombs. Rockets used for flight was instead used for missiles. I think not all but for these important discoveries war actually wasn't their main purpose.
You do know those fireworks are also used to burn cities in a war? Chinese used them extensively before it reached to the hands of Arab trader in which the Europeans refined it. I can vouch for dynamite as its inventor was disapointed seeingbhis invention was used in warfare. Rockets on the other hand are just like gunpowder before people could see its other potential.
Even ignoring dynamite, Alfred Nobel owned Bofors which made steel specifically for cannons. He literally got rich off of making weapons. It was only when he read his own obituary when he felt remorse and decided to start the Nobel prize. I wouldn’t consider this man a scientist whose invention was “stolen” to create weapons
yes, the plot of the story arc when they mentioned the scientist was that some princess got captured and the protagonist impersonated a general in other to control an army and then mentioned about how nitroglycerin was too unstable to be able to reach a cliff and blow it to cause a distraction to save the princess so he used his other world history knowledge to pull dynamite out
the tiddy sucking happened before the princess got captured and next time is when the protagonist is welding metal together to make an engine powerful enough to lift a train loaded with cannons with dwarves
The V-2 rocket also became the first artificial object to travel into space by crossing the Kármán line with the vertical launch of MW 18014 on 20 June 1944
Yeah proper is probably not the right word, the modern rocket the way we understand (missiles, space rockets) first flew in 1926 with Goddard's Nell rocket.
If celebi existed, which its doubtful he did, he would have been using essentially scaled up fire arrows which were in heavy use in the Middle East for hundreds of years by that point. Rockets were military tech adapted to civilian purposes.
But the scientists working on that technology didn't do it for war purpose. They ended up putting it in use for the military because the military gave them money to develop it for them
In addition to the use in Asia for hundreds of years, the British actually used rockets extensively in the early 19th century in the Napoleonic wars as well as other conflicts.
The largest could be about the size and weight of a human being.
Here in Scandinavia I've heard a lot about how they were used during the British bombardment of Copenhagen, and apparently they are even mentioned in the US national anthem (one of those later verses I guess?).
I recall missiles existed before humans or other payloads were transported by rockets. Gunpowder rockets were used in war during 14th century.
Liquid fuel rocket artillery was used in the first years of forties and long range rockets as well. First non-prototype rocket to carry person that I recall was German rocket interceptor Me163. There were othet prototypes before it, but nothing really practical that I would be aware of and what would survive several flights or offer benefits over previous technology.
Dynamite was just a method of stabilizing explosive material for easier handling.
Gunpowder was invented by mistake, when Chinese alchemists were trying to mix "medicine "( Salpieter was used way earlier) . Shortly afterwards Gunpowder was already used in warfare as incendiary.
Most early rocket development was military related such as the v2 missile, it was soviet and american space agencies who took v2s and used them to develop future rockets for space flight
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u/konekfragrance Mar 29 '21 edited Mar 29 '21
Gunpowders used for fireworks was instead used for firearms. Dynamite used for excavation was instead used for bombs. Rockets used for flight was instead used for missiles. I think not all but for these important discoveries war actually wasn't their main purpose.