Wiener powders

Wiener Powders (Baked Powders). Introduced in Russ in 1873, they were prepd by compression of the usual ingredients of BlkPdr, preheated to 120°. This was done in order to melt the sulfur, and thus achieve its better distribution thruout the mass... 

Baked Powder(Anhydrous Powder) was prepd ca 1873 by the Russian Colonel Wiener by pressing the ingredients of black powder at 120°. 

Austria, by contrast, had a state monopoly over military propellants and explosives, which was administered from 1908 by the Powder Department (7P) of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial War Ministry. This was the one area of artillery munitions not placed under thecompetence of the War Ministry s Inspector of Technical Artillery (ITA) in 1912, in the wake of the first Balkan war, which led to legislation enabling the War Ministry to assume control over the economy during a war emergency. While the ITA attempted to modernize the artillery and set up a network of civilian contractors to supplement the state arsenals, the production of military propellants remained concentrated in a few locations - principally the Blumau state powder factory near Wiener Neustadt, which was not known for its efficiency. But until the outbreak of war in 1914, the Powder Department apparently saw no need to utilize civilian firms such as the Dynamit-Nobel AG in Poszony (today Bratislava). ... 

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