Me thinkes that word ſpoke from a Neuils mouth, / Should like an earthquake rend your chained gates, / And teare in peeces your portculleiſes. /[…] / Come we will pull vp our Portculleiſes, / And let me ſee thee enter if thou dare.

I know squat about nuclear physics.

A gang of tsotsis – hooligans – attacked a group of older men, and when the owner tried to throw them out they ran amok in the place, smashing everything in their way.

From there, he’s on to making things like fuses, rockets and an eprouvette, or small cannon.