
Smokeless Powders
The Illustrated History of Firearms: In Association with the National Firearms Museum
These include a wide array of formulations but all are based on nitrocellulose. The first smokeless powder was developed in 1884 by Paul Vieille, a French engineer who mixed nitrocellulose with ether and alcohol. His mixture was kneaded to produce a colloided mass that was pressed into sheets...
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