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OCR: WARFARE Ina letter of self-recommendation to Lodovico Sforza, the ruler of Milan Leonardo boasted that he could make bom bards, cannons mortars and other weapons according to new ingenious designs. his rocket was designed to produce blazing trail of fire in the sky wartime could be tool of psychological warfare creating panic in the enemy During peacetime 11 could astound onlookers, much as mod lern-day fireworks displays do In this pyrotechnic device, a cannonbali is shot up into the sky, dragging behind if rocket that through attached the by sky from chain. the long back of trail the of fire rocket arcs VARFARE "The cannonball will drive the rocket more than three miles high, and flame half mile long will be seen trailing the rocket 1996 SoftKey Multimedia Inc. subsidiary of SoftKey Inte ...