Madfaa

The Madfaa is to be seen as a forerunner of today's modern firearms . It is an Arab weapon, which consisted of a thick-walled wooden pot with handles, which was filled with gunpowder . The top of the pot was closed with a round stone and the charge was ignited through an opening on the side through a burning fuse .

literature

• Anne-Lies Ihme, Gerd Werner: Inventions that changed our world . Tessloff Verlag, Nuremberg 1982, ISBN 3-7886-0275-9 (= WAS IST WAS, Volume 35).
• JR Partington: A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder . Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999, p. 206

Web links

• Madfaa . In: Brockhaus . 1911 (zeno.org)