This week, the show travels back to the American Revolution to explore the science of the weapons used by all sides.

Students visit a shooting range staffed by volunteers at seven stations ... Students experience using weapons from the Revolutionary War — like the “Brown Bess” flintlock Musket — all the way to the ...

Using ballistic gel, a slow-motion camera and a chronograph, experts investigate the true power of the British “Brown Bess” musket. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle ...

A ‘NOVA’ presentation offers an entertaining, informative look at the potent firepower of antique armaments.

Dozens of them, clad in scarlet, carrying Brown Bess muskets, and running for cover wherever they can find it. Flanking them on two sides are more armed Minute Men than they can make out amid the ...

But just how accurate is an 18th-century musket when it comes to hitting a ... director Stuart Powell relied upon a range of high-speed cameras called the Phantom Range. "It is like a ...

This Brown Bess-style musket's lock is marked "J. Barrett" and is a rare surviving Committee of Safety musket. "One thing that became abundantly clear in the run up to revolution was there was ...

Fall River firepower is well in evidence, as a Minuteman touches off his Brown Bess musket at advancing British troops, with the guns of Big Mamie remaining silent in the background, during a re ...

In the mid-1770s, the British army in North America was largely equipped with the Long Land Pattern musket, more commonly known as the Brown Bess, a .75-cal., smoothbore arm designed to mount a 17 ...