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WWI Innovations

WWI Innovations. Do Now: “The war is going to be won by inventions” British Admiral Jacky Fisher (1915) List several technologies that you use everyday that you think would impact a war. Explain your reasoning for listing each technology. Leimkuhler Productions. New Technology.

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WWI Innovations

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  1. WWI Innovations Do Now: “The war is going to be won by inventions” British Admiral Jacky Fisher (1915) List several technologies that you use everyday that you think would impact a war. Explain your reasoning for listing each technology. Leimkuhler Productions

  2. New Technology • World War I was a different war from any that had ever been fought in human history because of the Industrial Revolution. • Advances that had been made to increase manufacturing speed and efficiency were easily transferable to the tools of war. • Example: the machine gun

  3. Technologies used during WWI • Searchlight • Barbed wire • Trenches • Chemicals such as mustard gas • Radio • Submarines • Tanks • Aircraft

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