Technology of WWI

Flamethrowers were invented in 1900 by the German army, but weren’t used on the battlefield until World War I. Flamethrowers simply used some pressurized gas to shoot oil through a nozzle with a flame attached to it creating a jet stream of fire. The first flamethrowers were used by two-men to clear enemy trenches from a range of 25 meters. Later, flamethrowers were upgraded and had a range of up to 40 but still only had 40 seconds of fuel. On an extreme negative, the person using the flamethrower quickly became the target of gunfire and was killed.

Pill boxes were small re-enforced concrete shacks with narrow slits in which machine guns would fire out

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Safety straps were put into use in 1915, and allowed the gunner to shoot in multiple directions. Two types of poisonous gas were used: Chlorine Gas; and Mustard Gas. Machine guns were mounted on top of aircrafts, or built directly right into the body of the plane. The victims of mustard gas died an extremely slow painful death. But if these advancements were used properly, who knows what the result of World War I would have been?

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Another way to eradicate enemies in trenches was by tossing poison gas into their trenches and wait for them to either run out into open gunfire or die in the trench. Chlorine gas left a yellow-green cloud in its path. When the tanks first arrived at the battlefield German soldiers became terrified of the machines, and the tank broke through the enemy lines. The Mark I was first used in 1916 after infantry troops failed to break German lines. The machine-gun had been used foe years before, but new technology provided better guns, and many fell victim to machine gun fire. The pill-boxes weren’t used for long due to labor costs, and generals feared that soldiers would become more defensive-minded.

War spread to the air in World War I with the then-new airplane. Small amounts of mustard gas were put into artillery shells and fired at the opposing trench.

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