Popular Mechanics: Five Innovations to Emerge From the First World War
From hand grenades to fighter planes, World War I changed the face of war.
Veterans Day, observed every year on November 11th, is the anniversary of the Armistice with Germany that ended World War I. This Veterans Day marks the one hundredth anniversary of the end of the Great War, a global conflict that lasted approximately four years and killed more than thirteen million people worldwide.
As a form of competition, war supercharges innovation and often brings new, sometimes terrible, innovations to the forefront. On this anniversary Popular Mechanics asked Doran Cart, senior curator at the National World War I Museum and Memorial at Kansas City, Missouri, to discuss five innovations that emerged from what was dubbed "The War to End All Wars".
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WNU Editor: I would add tanks, submarines, and advances in artillery to this list.
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