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The Phone
Communication technology advanced rapidly with the electric telegraph, ushered in as a companion to the railways starting in the 1850s. Alexander Graham Bell's telephone appeared in the 1870s and, by the 1880s and 1890s, exchanges were common in most large cities. The first telephone exchange in Canada was installed in 1878 in Hamilton and it had 40 telephones by the end of the year. The first automatic exchange. -
The Flame Thrower
The first design for a modern flamethrower was submitted to the German Army by Richard Fiedler in 1901, and the devices were tested by the Germans with an experimental detachment in 1911. Their true potential was only realized during trench warfare, however. After a massed assault on enemy lines, it wasn’t uncommon for enemy soldiers to hole up in bunkers and dugouts hollowed into the side of the trenches. -
York Boat
A York boat on the Nelson River, Manitoba, 1913. York boats were used by the Hudson's Bay Company to carry furs and trade goods along inland waterways. They could be operated either by oar or sail.
Transportation, over huge distances and difficult terrain, posed enormous challenges. -
Snowmobile
Cars and trucks passed from being curiosities to necessities. The building of highways was facilitated by a new generation of trucks and crawler tractors, adapted for road construction. The Queen Elizabeth Way around the western end of Lake Ontario connecting Toronto to Buffalo, New York, via the Peace Bridge. -
The Tank
In 1914, the “war of movement” expected by most European generals settled down into an unexpected, and seemingly unwinnable, the war of trenches. With machine guns reinforcing massed rifle fire from the defending trenches, attackers were mowed down by the thousands before they could even get to the other side of “no-man’s-land -
tracker Bullet
While the Great War involved a lot of futile activity, fighting at night was especially unproductive because there was no way to see where you were shooting. Night combat was made somewhat easier by the British invention of tracer bullets/rounds which emitted small amounts of flammable material that left a phosphorescent trail. The first attempt, in 1915, wasn’t actually that useful.
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Poison Gas
Poison gas was used by both sides with devastating results during the Great War. The Germans pioneered the large-scale use of chemical weapons with a gas attack on Russian positions on January 31, 1915, during the Battle of Bolimov. -
RC Plane
The first pilotless drone was developed for the U.S. Navy in 1916 and 1917 by two inventors, who originally designed it as an unmanned aerial bomb/essentially a prototype cruise missile. Measuring just 18.5 feet across, with a 12-horsepower motor, the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Aircraft weighed 175 pounds. -
Paragraph pt.1
The two events that I have chosen are the snowmobile and the tank they demonstrate cause is by how much time and money it took to build their machines. One consequence they went threw would probably be when they were testing all of their machines and all of the things they would have to make sure it could do for war. For the continuity and change for the tank later on they ended up making it way stronger, -
paragraph pt.2
with better materials to build it with and for the snowmobile, they made them smaller and some of them have heat so people don't freeze in them. -
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