File:Chinese Bird with Incendiary.JPG
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An expendable bird carrying an incendiary receptacle round its neck, one of many bizarre delivery systems of warfare found in the Chinese Wujing Zongyao manuscript, compiled by the year 1044 during the Song Dynasty of China. However, birds such as these were used as flying incendiary weapons as early as the 10th century. This illustration also appears on page 212 of Joseph Needham's book Science and Civilization in China: Volume 5, Part 7. |
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| Author | PericlesofAthens |
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