Hasan al-Rammah

<p>Hasan al-Rammah  was a <a href="/facts/Syrians/KD2xaJaU">Syrian</a> <a href="/facts/Arab/E77duPsg">Arab</a> <a href="/facts/Chemist/N09K7Bdm">chemist</a> and <a href="/facts/Engineer/ph4TnHnG">engineer</a> during the <a href="/facts/Mamluk_Sultanate/laIxgFRS">Mamluk Sultanate</a> who studied <a href="/facts/Gunpowder/AEcB6HCR">gunpowders</a> and <a href="/facts/Explosive/sUme5Pp8">explosives</a>, and sketched prototype instruments of warfare, including the first <a href="/facts/Torpedo/RLLPpktk">torpedo</a>. Al-Rammah called his early torpedo "an egg which moves itself and burns." It was made of two sheet-pans of metal fastened together and filled with <a href="/facts/Naphtha/DpzLNMey">naphtha</a>, metal filings, and <a href="/facts/Potassium_nitrate/TycqMdcG">potassium nitrate</a>. It was intended to move across the surface of the water, propelled by a large rocket and kept on course by a small rudder.
</p><p>Al-Rammah devised several new types of gunpowder, a new type of fuse, and two types of lighters.
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Hasan al-Rammah