27 Mar
2005
27 Mar
'05
11:15 a.m.
> [...], how many of you have the knowledge of
metalurgy to make any
> metal tool from say... the Bronze age, or Iron, or make gun powder,
> sure you know what's in it, but can you obtain the raw materials,
> and build the contraption that they used to make it?
Anyone who's read _Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen_ knows how to make
gunpowder (well, anyone who's bothered to remember the details).
Myself, I'm not sure I can keep it straight which ingredient is which,
but I remember the 75:15:10 ratio, so it's at most six tries. :)
As for metallurgy, well, no. But I could probably reinvent rudimentary
cast iron with at most a few years' work; I expect the hardest part to
redevelop would be extracting iron from ore.
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