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Calendar of Discovery and Invention

Nature volume 120, page 859 (1927)Cite this article

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December 11, 1691.—Prior to the use of steam for pumping engines, experiments were made on the employment of gunpowder for the production of motive power in the “Calendar of State Papers”

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S., E. Calendar of Discovery and Invention. Nature 120, 859 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120859b0

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