gunpowder

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When gunpowder arrived and the emerging nation-states rendered obsolete the old art of war dominated by feudal lords entrenched in their castles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

They likened AI’s potential to transform the military to gunpowder, a technology invented in China but more effectively weaponized, many in China believe, by others.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

At the top of the hill is a stone turret, the eponymous powder house, where the British army arrived in 1774 to seize a stock of gunpowder.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2025

For two centuries, the waltz has collided with gunpowder and, more lately, AI, in ways that have shaped culture and society.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024

They did not have gunpowder, but they had artillery in the form of the ballista.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton