when were grenades invented
The Australians used the tin cans from jam and their early grenades were nicknamed Jam Bombs.. The first safe (for the person throwing it) grenade was the Mills bomb, invented by English engineer and designer William Mills in 1915.he word grenade comes from the French word for pomegranate, early grenades looked like pomegranates. Grenades first came into use around the 15th century and the first inventor cannot be named. The first grenades were hollow iron balls filled with gunpowder and ignited by a slow burning wick.