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Episode 40: Confederate Rocket

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EPISODE TITLE: Episode 40: Confederate Rocket

ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 10/26/2005

SYNOPSIS: The American Civil War was fought with bayonets, muskets and cannons. But was that all? Not according to the MythBusters. So Adam, Jamie and the build team join forces to find out if the Confederate Army had a secret deadly weapon — the world's first long-range missile, which according to rumor, was launched from Richmond, Va., and aimed at the White House over 100 miles away.


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Myth #1: Confederate Rocket
Did the Confederate Army have the world's first long-range missile?
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Highlights of This Episode:

  • This was the second episode in which the entire hour was devoted to testing a single myth.
  • Because the myth dealt with the making of explosive or dangerous materials, the ingredients used to make nitrous oxide and gun cotton were censored by substituting animal sounds for the actual chemicals.





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