When did bombs actually look like this?

Bombs used to be really big and heavy, like a giant backpack full of rocks.

A long time ago, people didn’t have fancy technology or cool gadgets, they had to build bombs out of things they could find around them. Early bombs were kind of like big clay pots that would explode when you lit a fuse, which was like a long string that burned slowly. You’d light one end and run away before it went Boom!

These old bombs weren’t shaped like the ones in cartoons or movies today, they looked more like round rocks with strings attached, not shiny, pointy things that zoom through the sky.

Later on, people started making bombs smaller and more powerful. They used materials like metal and chemicals to make them go Boom even faster and harder. That’s why modern bombs look so different, they're like the supercharged version of a clay pot!

So next time you see a bomb in a movie or a video game, remember: it didn’t always look that cool, it started off as something simple, like a big rock with a string!