The Hand Grenade

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The Hand Grenade

• By Adam Lee

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Main Menu

• The Invention
• The Inventor
• Uses Today
• Bibliography

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The Invention

• The hand grenade is a small bomb. It was the size
  of a can of soup. The grenade was a shape of a
  can or it was kind of a ball and had many small
  bumps so you could get a grip to throw it. To
  detonate the grenade you had to pull the little
  ring on the grenade. The soldiers did not pull
  the ring with their teeth.you would have around 3
  to 6 seconds until it would explode.

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The Inventor

• William Mills was born in 1856. He was involved
  in the making of aluminum. William Mills invented
  the first safe hand grenade in 1915. People
  called it the mills bomb. He made it so you could
  unscrew the detonator so it would be safe for
  transporting. He made many types of grenades. He
  made many. Later over the years he made better
  grenades. He also made the grenade launcher. It
  could launch the grenade much further.

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Uses Today

• We do not use grenades that much these days
  anymore. We stopped using grenades during the
  1960s.We do not use them because we can now use
  rocket launchers and tanks. But we still we some
  times use grenade launchers. In the army they
  still get to use grenades for practice.
  Productions are still making grenades today.

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Bibliography

• Info
• Morris, Mike., Grenade,
• http//va.essortment.com/handgrenadeh_rgor.htm
• http//www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/pol
  icy/army/fm/3-23-30/ch3.htm
• Smith, Steven., Grenade
• http//www.thecabal.org/gurps/rareitems/phosgren.h
  tml
• Bellis, Mary., Grenade
• http//inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blgre
  nade.htm
• Pictures
• http//history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwii/wound
  blstcs/default.htm
• www.arsenal-bg.com/ defense_police/sound_flash...
  
• www.ibiblio.org/.../ Japan/IJA/HB/img/hb-196.gif
• www.ibiblio.org/.../ Japan/IJA/HB/img/hb-198.gif
• www.arsenal-bg.com/ defense_police/sound_flash...
• www.skirmish.at/ww2/ weapons/grenades/mk3a2/
• vietnamresearch.com/ weapons/grenad.html
• http//www.firstworldwar.com/bio/mills.htm