The fire lance (simplified Chinese: 火枪; traditional Chinese: 火槍; pinyin: huǒqiāng; lit. 'fire spear') was a gunpowder weapon and the ancestor of modern...

fire lance, operable by a single person, which was later used effectively as a shock weapon in the siege of De'an in 1132. In the 13th century, fire lance...

in weapons such as fire arrows, bombs, and the fire lance before the appearance of the gun in the 13th century. While the fire lance was eventually supplanted...

'pear-flower lance' (li hua qiang). A fire lance as depicted in the Huolongjing. A 'fire lance' (huo qiang). A double barreled fire lance from the Huolongjing...

opposed to one which does not, such as the shrapnel shooting fire lance. As such, the fire lance, which appeared between the 10th and 12th centuries AD, as...

earlier gunpowder weapon called the fire lance. The result was a projectile weapon in the shape of a cylinder that fired projectiles using the explosive pressure...

to fire lances, and re-usable fire lance barrels were developed, first out of hardened paper, and then metal. By 1257 some fire lances were firing wads...

in the Song dynasty included fire arrows, gunpowder lit flamethrowers, soft shell bombs, hard shell iron bombs, fire lances, and possibly early cannons...

attack ships and men. The invention of gunpowder in China led to the fire lance, a flame-thrower weapon dating to around 1000 CE which was a precursor...

weapons such as fire arrows launched using a type of solid-propellant rocket. Another interpretation of the passage suggests they were fire lances that shot...

The English term lance is derived, via Middle English launce and Old French lance, from the Latin lancea, a generic term meaning a spear or javelin employed...

gonne or handgonne, is the first true firearm and the successor of the fire lance. It is the oldest type of small arms as well as the most mechanically...

containing gunpowder projectiles were mounted on spears to make portable fire lances. Over the following centuries, the design evolved into various types...

predecessors of fire lances, the first firearm. Later rockets utilizing gunpowder were used to provide arrows with propulsive force and the term fire arrow became...

were all called 'fire trebuchets' because they were used to project fire-weapons like the (fire-)ball, (fire-)falcon, and (fire-)lance. They were the ancestors...

for gunpowder, the invention of gunpowder weapons such as fire arrows, bombs, and the fire lance. It also saw the first discernment of true north using a...

Lance corporal is a military rank, used by many English-speaking armed forces worldwide, and also by some police forces and other uniformed organisations...

invented, which increased the sophistication of the weapons, starting with fire lances, which led to the eventual development of the cannon and other firearms...

cannon, the fire lance, was a spear tied with a bamboo or paper barrel that could fire projectiles. The transition between the fire lance to the cannon...

Publishing. p. 204. ISBN 978-0-87220-915-2. First known illustration of a fire lance and a grenade Bodde, Derk (1987). Chinese Ideas About Nature and Society:...

of the fire, Lance & Carla Hoffman. Information on this foundation including benefits and donations can be found on Facebook's group "Tea Fire Survivors:...

Lance Henriksen (born May 5, 1940) is an American actor. He is known for his works in various science fiction, action and horror, such as that of Bishop...

match is used for igniting flame throwers. The ancestor of firearms, the fire lance, also appears, but its usage in the 10th century is uncertain and no textual...

gunners to fire. It is today equivalent to the rank of corporal in other branches. The rank of lance bombardier is the artillery counterpart of lance corporal...

is important in global history as the first recorded instance of the fire lance, an early ancestor of firearms, being used in battle. After the Jingkang...

bullet-moulds and muskets, and even a kind of primitive machine-gun. b The fire-lance was not yet quite dead Derk Bodde (1987). Charles Le Blanc; Susan Blader...

the fire lance prior to the Jin-Song wars, a Song text from 1000 and the Wujing Zongyao do make brief mentions of the fire lance. The fire lance, as implied...

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century during the Tang dynasty led to an array of inventions such as the fire lance, land mine, naval mine, hand cannon, exploding cannonballs, multistage...

weapons as the fire medicine of the fire lances were described using a new word: "fire bomb medicine" (火炮藥), rather than simply "fire medicine." This...