The Invention Of The World War II

Gunpowder was known of in China since the eleventh century, but it reached Europe in the mid-thirteenth century, however, it was not until the fourteenth century when gunpowder began to be used practically. Innovations such as the cannon were used widely throughout europe when attacking and defending from sieges. The timely process that was siege warfare was quickly cut down by the cannon by 1380. The defensive walls that had for so long defended fortresses crumbled quickly due to heavy cannon bombardment. The first response was to thicken defensive fortress walls, however, by the later fifteenth century the french began to use trenches. The effect of gunpowder on medieval warfare took a long time to actually become noticeable because of the many cons to using cannons. Cannons were very hard to move because of their weight and some of the earlier cannons had to be dangerously close to the target in order for the shot to reach, not only that, the reloading the cannons was a lengthy and unconventional process making the use of early cannons not so desirable for attacking armies. Early cannons were also the cause of a good number of accidents that mostly resulted in death such as when James II of Scotland was killed when the chamber of a cannon exploded. While gunpowder did affect medieval warfare, it was not until the very end of the middle ages when weapons that

Technology and weapons in wars since the Civil War have been progressing each and every day since then. There has been a number changes both good and not so good that has affected how our countries military forces react to the battle field. The advancements that has been made over the many years have killed millions and millions of people during time at war. Since the American Civil War there has been drastic changes to how war that have been fought. Why has technology in war been so important and helpful to us but at the same time been so devastating or us? Wars have also been started because of a new technology and using an antidote to those technologies have brought victory.

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 Maybe the generals of World War 1 (WW1) should have been told this when they used cavalry when they were outdated and rifles and machine guns were the weapons of this war.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.

Human life has many variables, and little is constant. One thing that seems constant through time is war. Another constant is human hunger for victory and glory. There will never be a time when people and nations are in perfect agreement. In a war, which is essentially a contest, it is imperative to keep up with the other side of the conflict, forcing constant alteration. Most of the major wars throughout time, including both World Wars, have been followed by dramatic technological and economic advancement typified by the 1920s and 1950s. War, and by extension, the competitive human spirit, drive new technological developments.

World War One, one of the most deadliest wars in history, caused massive damage to countries in Europe. During World War One, the technology advanced, with many creations were created, that caused a high amount of death and destruction. The U-Boat, also known as a submarine, is a underwater boat that the Germans used during World War One. The Tank was developed in World War One to help make crossing no man’s land easier. Poison gas was used in World War One as a new tactic to kill people in the trenches

The small arms that the army did have were often defective and gunpowder was scarce. The standard musket used by the militia was inefficient in terms of fighting on the larger scale battle fields. Not only were the bullets completely inaccurate at 300 yards but they were also no longer lethal at that distance. Additionally, the rifles the militia used were their own and not available to the Continental Army as a whole. Therefore, the Continental Army began using the “Brown Bess”, the musket with bayonet attachment that the British Army used. They became available as the Patriots would capture British troops and were also shipped in from European manufacturers. Although it was highly inaccurate and was very time consuming in terms of reloading, considering it was used in mass in the linear formation of the ranks and file of the standing armies, it was highly effective in terms of the volleying of the rounds. At fifty yards, the “Brown Bess” would have an eighteen inch variance. However, in linear formations, this variance could be overcome and injury could still be imposed as soldiers were closely filed together. The musket weighed approximately 13 pounds and released a large amount of smoke after it was fired. Therefore, the linear tactics had to be employed to allow for repeated volleys, firing rank by rank, and thus unleashing more damage at approximately nine rounds per volley. Furthermore, the “Brown Bess” had the capability of attaching bayonets, which were also necessary on the battlefield. The bayonet was inserted down the barrel of the musket, which was imperative for close quarter hand to hand combat when time did not allow to reload the musket and the enemy was too close. Linear tactics also allowed Washington’s use of artillery, although it was limited. Washington utilized light, mobile cannons and field artillery to push back the

During the beginning of the Civil War the Army Ordnance Board attempted to apply rifling to bronze bore cannons. Nonetheless, this form of rifling would prove unsuccessful, as the bores were shot out in less than 500 rounds. However, Phoenix Iron Works of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania would alter the rifling design by casting cannons out of iron with rifled iron banding in the bores. This new form of cannon development caused little wear on the cannon bores, vastly extending tube life. Furthermore, this new

The invention of the powerful artillery guns would change man 's role in warring engagements. The artillery guns at first were very limited by their own design. The guns were very heavy and had to be transported by water, which meant that only towns and fortresses that were close to a body of water could be attacked with artillery also known as the cannon. There were also some fortresses that were impervious to the early cannon attacks based on strong designs or natural defenses. The French were able to penetrate the round shaped castles and large walls during the late 1400s by using concentrated fire of several small guns instead of a few large ones.

Since the north had a blockade around them they couldn’t get any gunpowder from the seas so`they built huge gunpowder mills and they also melted church bells to make

World War II was and most likely will be the largest and most great war to ever appear on this earth. Although it brought so much death and destruction with a striking total of over 60 million deaths, it is also the deadliest conflict to ever have happened as well. Out of all the horror that was WWII it did create a lot of advancements like the boost in advancements in technology. As well there were great social changes in the United States. Also there were significant boosts in medical sciences. There were economical advancements in the United States. Finally there were advancements in world peace never seen before. Though war should never be defined as good, World War II created many beneficial advancements for the United States and the world.

Gunpowder was invented by the Chinese people around 700 A.D. Its invention would start a revolutionary change for military weapons around the world and would become the starting point for today’s weapons. The Chinese did not know it at the time, but they had just made a big step forward for the world in military technology. They first used gunpowder for fireworks rather than using it to become a powerful military force. If the Chinese had used gunpowder for making weapons instead of fireworks upon first discovering it in 700 A.D., they would have had a great advantage over most other civilizations and could easily have become a military superpower.

The new weapon was the handgun. The handgun was invented well before the war began yet it was not widely used due to their short range and long reload time. When the war begun handgun technology grew. Smith & Wesson a gun company created rimfire cartridges which allowed the gun to have the ability to ne reloaded from behind, decreasing the reloading process. Handguns also used the new technology to be able to be extremely accurate up to fifty yards and hold several rounds before needing to be reloaded. Edward C. Ezell teaches us that, “By linking the trigger to the hammer-cocking and cylinder-revolving mechanisms, double action permitted a pistol to be fired with a simple pull of the trigger.” This is important because before Smith & Wesson created this new trigger system soldiers had to manually pull back the hammer before the gun could fire now when they pulled the trigger the hammer was automatically pulled back and released firing the handgun. With the combinations of all these new technologies the handgun or as they called them revolvers quickly became popular replacing the centuries old weapon the sword. The sword had been used as a weapon for thousands of years even as a sidearm once guns started to be primarily used but now with new advantages of the handgun swords were made obsolete. With all the new invented technologies of firearms being put together how do the

Inventors and military men devised new types of weapons, such as the repeating rifle and the submarine, that forever changed the way that wars were fought. Even more important were the technologies that did not specifically have to do with the war, like the railroad and the telegraph. Before the civil war that had guns called muskets and they only carried one bullet. The range of the muskets were 250 yards. In 1848, a French army officer named Claude Minié invented a cone-shaped lead bullet with a diameter smaller than that of the rifle barrel. Soldiers could load these “Minié balls” quickly, without the aid of ramrods or mallets. Rifles with Minié bullets were more accurate, and therefore deadlier, than muskets were, which forced infantries to change the way they

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.

2017). From there, the Moors and the Ottoman Turks created their own forms of firearms. The Moors fought the Europeans in Spain for control of the area, and not even a year after that war the first firearms were finished in Italy. Soon after that the first cannons began to appear, the earliest to appear was from the Turks, they created the bombard. Which were these huge cannon, bigger than one could imagine. The bombards would blow down castle wall this was one of the key weapons that caused the city to fall. With it, fell the recipe of another type of gunpowder, which was mostly used as an early form of flame thrower (Sammon, J. 2012).