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Right, and getting the finance to start the journey will be problematic. The elevator pitch for the musket will sound like black magic.
by rsecora 5y ago
Right, and getting the finance to start the journey will be problematic.
The elevator pitch for the musket will sound like black magic.
- ghaff 5y agoIn ancient Greece, I wouldn't be surprised if a crossbow (a bow that can be used with relatively little training!) wouldn't be more useful than very primitive firearms.
- smhenderson 5y agoAncient Greece had the ballista as early as 400 BC so this also wouldn't have seemed that magic or mysterious to them as well.
- bluGill 5y agoI'm not sure even with an unlimited budget you could get metals that would work as a musket. A cannon could be done if you know how, but the cost of that much metal would mean you would need the unlimited budget.
- mywittyname 5y agoOne could probably build a cannon out of mostly wood, with some banding for strategic reinforcement. It would be fucking dangerous to operate and might not be all that effective. But my understanding is that the early cannons mainly worked by striking so much fear into people, that they surrendered without resistance. The machines used to bore cannon holes into logs (lathes) would probably be nearly as profitable as the cannons themselves. And one could presumably use their cannon production business to finance their lathe-building business. Oh, and there's always dynamite.
- ghaff 5y agoBlack powder bronze firearms did apparently exist historically. Note that bronze is a fairly broad term for a range of alloys, some of which I'm guessing didn't exist in the "bronze age."