Colonel Lewis McBride an Inventor, Soldier and a Patriot

World War I trench warfare is no different. Both Allies and Axis used artillery constantly to bombard enemy position or cover infantry advances. There are two types of artillery. The first type of artillery is known as the field gun. Field guns were meant to be fired directly at an enemy position at a relatively flat trajectory (“New Weapons”). Perhaps the most successful field gun ever created was the French 75mm field gun known as "the 75". The field gun features a 75mm bore that can fire 75mm caliber rounds and its revolutionary hydraulic buffer that prevents the artillery from moving after it is fired. This hydraulic buffer is similar to the automobile's shock absorber, absorbing the recoil of the gun

Trench warfare was adopted to maintain an area of land, to prevent the enemy from capturing that land. The importance of this investigation was to show the significance of trench warfare during the First World War and how effective it was on how it had prevented many full on, front lined, assaults. World War I could have had a great impact in history with the amount of war casualties, which would have been historically shocking, but instead it created the stalemate, which prevented such numbers of deaths from happening.

William Pollard once said, "Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient tomorrow." Maybe the generals of World War 1 (WW1) should have been told this when they used cavalry when they were outdated and rifles and machine guns were the weapons of this war. They found this out the hard way which sparked the time of technological innovations and changes that was WW1. The three technological innovations I will write about are machine guns, planes and tanks.

Light machine guns and sub-machine guns were invented during World War I as small arms, but the larger machine guns were modernized as well. Flame throwers were used as an offensive attack against trench warfare.[ix],[x]

During the 1920s Americans often celebrated materialistic prosperity and made national heroes from their favorite sports figures. The biggest American sports star was undoubtedly Babe Ruth; his only closest rival during the time period was a ruthless heavyweight boxer called Jack Dempsey.

In this essay I will examine the impact that WWI had on Australia in the areas of social, political, economic and technological. I will further examine the contribution that WWI played towards making Australia the nation that it is today. Australia was first involved in WWI in 1915, this meant changes to the lives of people out on the battlefields and even back home in Australia. However the changes didn't end when the gun shoots fell silent but was continue for years, when the soldiers returned with their problems as a result of the war. WWI had a huge effect on the work class Australia women.

It was challenging for the armies to continue the war while having a huge loss because of the guns, thus there was a need of the methods, like trench warfare. Trench warfare reached to its peak usage in WWI and one of the factors affecting that was the achievement in the weapon technology. Specially, MG 08, which is the German version of Maxim machine gun was forced people for trench warfare, otherwise just one machine gun was able to destroy one army of the opposite side. Moreover, in order to defend against the the military ships that has extended range tanks they were using the trenches that are a bit far from the shore, like it was in Dardanelle war. Furthermore, the use of bombs and gas made some issues on the trenches. For instance, with the use of gas, from mid-1915, every trench had some form of warning of gas attack. We can imagine these situations from the memories of Paul Baumer from “All Quite on the Western Front”: Paul mentions that soldiers cannot define bomb sounds from the other sounds and were dying because of shrapnels; This is terrible that because of the limited time, they could not have trainings and they were dying in front of their eyes, because of the lack of experience. Under those circumstances, it is possible to see how the technology caused the transition to trench warfare and how it

The musket rifle was now made with grooves inside the barrel. These grooves allowed the bullet to spin more when the gun was fired. The spinning motion made the gun far more accurate. This technological advancement played a huge part in the colonist success during the war. As well as this, the new rifle are part of the reason there is such advanced weaponry in the army today.

Davy Crockett was an 19th-century American folk-hero and he was also a frontiersman,soldier and politician, known mostly by a soldier in the Alamo. Davy Crockett is from a pioneerfamily on the Nolichucky River in east Tennessee. He went to school at 13 years old. He didn’tlike school either. He ran away for two and a half years to avoid being punished. When he wasabout 7, a flood washed away his father's gristmill. His family moved to Jefferson county andopened a log cabin tavern.Davy Crockett was an American hero but mostly known as a soldier hero. He was mostknown for fighting in the Alamo where he unfortunately died as an Alamo hero. In 1813, shortlyafter Davy Crockett moved to Franklin County, frontiersman ambushed a band of Creek. In1815,

Throughout World War I technology changed the way war was fought and new defensives were created every day to protect each respective side. Weapons were one of the major technological items that changed the course of the war from soldiers fighting style from trench warfare to the first line of defense. Artillery was a new piece of technology that impacted World War I especially during trench warfare. Artillery was considered to be the number one threat to infantry due to its high explosive power. Artillery’s main use was to counter trench warfare to due to it shot at a trajectory in order to shoot from a high angle. Artillery was the most impactful technology of World War I due to its high success rate for counter attacks as well as its threat

Great Britain believed that World War I or the Great War would be over before Christmas so they built their trenches to only stand temporarily. Britain did not want to waste time and money on building comfortable and specialized trenches. Germany did not know how long the war would last so they built there trenches to with stand as many years of fighting necessary. The Germans spent weeks designing their trenches and making sure that they were technologically advanced. They wanted to make sure it had the comfort and stability that they needed to fight for an extended amount of time.

Weapons design was typically a task performed by the Ordnance Corps. Due to the less than acceptable pace of how the Stokes was improving, CPT McBride was charged with this task due to his knowledge in electrical engineering, passion for all things mechanical, his interests in chemistry, and his knack for invention. CPT McBride improved upon the Stokes by rifling the barrel and increasing the range to 3000 yards which were triple the previous range. Not only did McBride triple the range, he also improved the accuracy and could put rounds inside of a 50-foot circle. Of his many achievements and accomplishments during his time in the Chemical Weapons Service, he was awarded over a dozen patents for chemical and electrical inventions. In most of his patented inventions he specified that his inventions “…may be manufactured and used by or for the Government for governmental purposes without the payment to me of any royalty thereon” (Lindberg, 2005). Many of McBride’s inventions have been used in controlling prisoners and as an offensive weapon on the battlefield to confuse troops. His greatest accomplishment was said to be his design of riot control items that consisted of gas guns, spray tanks, cartridges and grenades that aided police departments in the 1920s and 1930s to battle the organized crime spree during that time frame

On February 20, 1962, John H. Glenn became the number three American in space and the first to orbit the planet Earth when he successfully completed three orbits on the space capsule “Friendship 7.” In the midst of Cold War tensions and amid the very real fear that the Soviet Union was winning the space race, Glenn’s success brought a sense of pride and relief to Americans and instantly made the 31-year-old Glenn a national hero. Glenn resigned from NASA in 1964, and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1974, representing Ohio for 25 years. In October 1998, Senator Glenn returned to space at the age of 77 as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery, making him the oldest person to fly in space. Glenn died on December 8, 2016, at

" Stalemates created by trench warfare forced commanders to strategize their methods of approach. On the other hand, artillery proved a worthy opponent for forces approaching hostile boarders. Trench warfare created intense methods to control the battlefield. British forces developed new techniques to attack modern trenches. Tanks developed transport through machine gun fire to create avenues of approach to impenetrable enemy strongholds.

American army officer Omar Bradley once said,“If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.” The meaning of this quote lies in the destruction and devastation of humanity and geography during war. If we do not stop advancing in ways of killing and causing suffering, we will soon face the consequences of these technologies. Throughout World War I and World War II, there was a ginormous technological boom in which countries were competing to invent new weapons or vehicles used in warfare. Specifically, World War I could be blamed for the start of the creating of new technologies used in warfare even today. These technologies were often invented or created during World War I,