We aren't you dimwit. Gunpowder was replaced in the 1860's with Nitrocellulose...and BTW the Chinese are also using Nitrocellulose (well surprise..surprise) instead of their own gunpowder invention...they should be the ones finding their own Nitrocellulose replacement. What's your answer to that smart guy? Where's all the supposed Chinese brilliant minds that should be finding an even better formula?
Seems China is always following the West whether it be OS's or your own example of gunpowder
By "now" do you mean like last weekend or something..but not enough in the last 20 years?
..and you are sitting in your glass and steel building using the internet on your battery/electricity powered phone/computer..and you are saying this to sort of impress me somehow?
Sorry, China don't go around ROBBING & KILLING natives of resource rich lands, exploit Africa for SLAVES, India and China for skilled labor for the FUNDS to invest in new discoveries.
What has Nitrocellulose got to do with you?
What have you invented that qualify you to demean others from your high horse?
You are just a parasite living off the largesse from the plundering of the IMPERIAL COLONIALISTS using gunpowder.
Be grateful to the Chinese for the things you enjoy today.
The US railway was cheap, exploiting SKILLED LABOR from China.
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Chinese workers were an essential part of building the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR), the western section of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States.
The Chinese numbered 10,000 to 15,000 during high points of construction of the CPRR; and they perhaps amounted up to 20,000 in total between 1865 and 1869, composing as much as 90 percent of the workforce for much of the construction. The eastern section of the line, built by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, required tracks laid across vast flat expanses of mid-western prairie, but the western portion of the line required tunneling through the imposing Sierra Nevada mountains – blasting and digging cuts through deep rock, carving out 15 tunnels through solid granite in high altitudes, dumping large quantities of dirt and rubble to create fills, constructing trestles across deep canyons, building retaining walls. The terrain was a bit easier once they reached the high desert of Nevada and Utah, but there they had to contend with extreme heat, long supply lines, and the breakneck speed of construction.
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It was some civilian propeller seaplane needing to be converted to a military spec. Plus Boeing was not the Wright Brothers nor the only plane maker.
