“Sukraniti,” recipe for powder in the, 109 Sulphurs, several (so-called), in early times, 80 Talwood, 179 Tampions for musket-arrows (1588), 200 Tayif, siege of (A.D. 630), 90 Tea in China and Europe, 113 Tell, William, legend of, 127 Temples, Indian, causes of decay of, 112 Testing powder. _See_ Gunpowder Theophanes on invention of sea-fire, 33 Toll, Hauptmann, on Shrapnel shell, 212 Tourbillion, a firework, 247 Tozer’s friction-tube (1853), 231 Train of powder to fire early guns, 228 Translations, specimens of, 9 Trombes, or tronckes, 51 Tubes, friction (1853), 231 —— percussion (1831), 231 —— quill, for navy (_cir._ 1778), 230 _Tung-kian-kang-mu_, Chinese Encyclopædia, 130-31 Uddevalla, battle of (1677), 229 Ufano’s experiments with fuzes (_cir._ 1600), 236 Valturio´s bronze shell (1463), 138, 221 Wachtendonck, siege of (1588), 227 Watches invented (1674), 239 Weissenburg, siege of (1469), 220 Wheatstone’s electro-magnetic chronoscope, 194 Whitehorne on silent powder, 197 —— on serpentine and corned powder, 183 Wildfire, history of the word, 51 Words, changes in the meaning of, 6 Wright, Mr. Thomas, on mariner’s compass, 112 Xerxes’ fire-archers, 55 Yavakshara (_Sanskrit_), meaning of, 16 Yo (_Chinese_), successive meanings of, 6 Yung Loh, Chinese Emperor (1403), 133-34 Yusuf ibn Ismaël al-Juni on saltpetre (1311), 103 Zarb-zan = swivel gun, Babar’s, 121 Zembaq (_Arabic_), doubtful meaning of, 81 Zimmermann’s projectile (1573), 212-13 Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO. Edinburgh & London End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Gunpowder and Ammunition their Origin and Progress, by Henry W. L. Hime