Re the spherical bomb: an example from 1946: Tom & Jerry, Trap Happy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyMfR_yoEdE#t=1m59 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyMfR_yoE

Re the spherical bomb: an example from 1946: Tom & Jerry, Trap Happy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyMfR_yoEdE#t=1m59 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyMfR_yoEdE#t=1m59 In 1922, Buster Keaton's "Cops" features a bomb-throwing anarchist: http://images.greencine.com/images/article/keaton-bomb-2.jpg http://images.greencine.com/images/article/keaton-bomb-2.jpg (Buster unknowingly lights his cigarette with it) And 1919, a 'Red Scare' cartoon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Come_unto_me,_ye_opprest.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Come_unto_me,_ye_opprest.... But this has got to be older, as this type of throwing bomb was obsolete in the early 1900s. There's the Haymarket affair (1886): http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haymarket/justicebomb.jpg http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haymarket/just... I'm guessing that's the incident that ties this bomb to political activists. But the design is a lot older; the badge of Napoleon's grenadier guards is an image of this type of bomb, but the round throwing bomb is way, way older: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ming_Dynasty_fragmentation_bomb.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ming_Dynasty_fragmentatio... Recognisably the same bomb, from the 14th century.