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China
China was the first to discover gun powder, is that what you mean.
Gun powder was originally a combination of ground saltpeter, ground charcoal and ground sulfur. the original gun powder had problems. one it gumed up your gun, two it produced too much smoke. we now use a much more usefull and smokeless powder i forget the name though...
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Gun powder.
Technically, the "gun" was invented by the Chinese when they first created gun powder. A hollow tube was placed vertically on the ground, loaded with a small amount of powder, an object was stuffed inside, and then the powder was ignited.
Maybe a scatter gun. The first gun was an iron pipe with one end closed of with a tiny hole at the end to ignite the powder. It consisted of black powder, a cloth, and tiny pebbles.
It was the gun. The first mass produced gun with interchangeable parts was produced the percussion ignition smooth bore musket produced by the Springfield Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1850.
Black Powder.