Instructional Video3:22
TED-Ed

TED-ED: The deadly irony of gunpowder - Eric Rosado

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video3:25
TED-Ed

The Deadly Irony of Gunpowder

7th - 12th Standards
Gunpowder has played a key role in shaping civilization as we know it today. Trace its evolution from its beginnings in the mid-ninth century when early Chinese alchemists worked to create a potion for immortality, through its use...