GK
INVENTIONS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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G. Ferdinand Von Zeppelin
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Sir Frank Whittle
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Roger Bacon
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Leo H Baekeland
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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is Roger Bacon. It was the first chemical explosive and the only one known until the invention of nitrocellulose, nitroglycerin, smokeless powder, and TNT in the second half of the 19th century.
Detailed explanation-2: -Roger Bacon (1214–1292) had a formula for it and so might have the German monk Berthold Schwartz who is believed to have lived in the fourteenth century. The year 1353 is often given as the date of his invention of gunpowder.
Detailed explanation-3: -Roger Bacon did not invent gunpowder; it was invented in China in the 9th century under the Tang Dynasty. However, Roger Bacon is credited with being the first Western intellectual to produce gunpowder after witnessing at least one demonstration of explosives from the Mongol Empire.