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Period: 3500 BCE to 600 BCE
3500 B.C.E to 600 B.C.E swords, spears, cavalry, and bow and arrows (the prehistoric to around the 1300s, and then from the 1400s, when gunpowder became powerful in europe, to right before the industrial revolution)
Riding horses was an important form of transportation for soldiers; they drew swords and slew each other on horsebacks and fired off arrows on horsebacks. The use of cavalry did not make infantry obsolete, for roman and greek soldiers often fought on foot, marching towards their enemies with their shields to form a moving wall called the "phalanx". iron weapons such as swords and spears, along with the bow and arrow, were the earliest primitive weapons used. -
Period: 1300 to
1300s to 1700s gunpowder revolution, projectile firing weapons, muskets (led by the gunpowder revolution that occurred in Europe after the Europeans had been introduced to gunpowder, which was first invented in China)
tThey developed projectile-firing weapons — similar to a simply canon, to hurl at protective castle or city walls. by the late 1400s, wheeled artillery became more common and was used for sieges. much later in the early 1600s, the first muskets were invented and experimented with, but as the technology was still not thoroughly developed, it did not replace any of the more primitive weapons. -
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Horses & Roman Chivalry
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Weapons that are invented before the Industrial revolution
Many weapons, like muskets, were actually invented before the onset of the industrial revolution, but with new innovations and high efficiencies, the industrial revolution highly impacted these pre-revolution weapons. muskets used to be produced in small workshops by specialized workers, and they were more expensive to make, not to mention that it often made mechanical failures because there was not a standardization of the parts. -
Musket
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Weapons during the Industrial Revolution
Armament plants and gunpowder mills made them easier and faster to produce, so they soon were more commonly used.
another innovation was the cylidro-conoidal bullet. Before this invention, rifles often dealt with a problem called "windage", which was when after the firing of a rifle, gas would escape and push the gunpowder back through the breech. The bullet was adjusted until it allowed no air or gunpowder to be pushed back, and it improved the shooting range and loading speed. -
Locomotive
The prussians were the first to realize the importance of it in warfare, and in 1846, used its power to move large troops. locomotives replaced the need of animals or the marching of supplies to battlefields; attacking forces could move supplies and troops into enemy territories much faster once they controlled the railways. -
Rocket
Benjamin Robins first proposed the idea of using rockets for military purposes. these explosive rockets were used by the chinese much earlier on during the thirteenth century. the first war rocket was used by the british in 1806, and by 1810 full-scale production of twelve pound war rockets were happening in english factories. -
Dynamite
A.Diatomaceous earth (or any other type of absorbent material) soaked in nitroglycerin.
B.Protective coating surrounding the explosive material.
C.Blasting cap.
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Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), a Swedish chemist, engineer, and inventor, invented dynamite in 1866. Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay) and stabilizers. Nobel originally wanted to invent dynamite for the purpose of mining and road construction. -
Alfred Nobel
However, later it was used in many warfares, which is a deadly and potent weapon.It was first utilized in the World War I, and it was mainly used for digging trenches. Then, in American civil war, it was used to destroy enemy tanks . It explodes after the blasting cap causes a smaller explosion resulting in a “shock” to the dynamite. Today, dynamite is primarily used in construction, mining and demolition. -
Barbed wire
Barbed wire was invented by the “Big Four”— Joseph Glidden (an American businessman), Jacob Haish(A German carpenter), Charles Francis Washburn, and Isaac L. Ellwood (an American businessman).
Wire fencing constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand(s). Barbed wire was the first wire technology capable of restraining cattle. -
Barbed wires
Then, the barbed wires are used as the wire obstacles that are designed to disrupt, delay, and generally slow down the attacking enemy. The barbed wires create as killing zone, which the enemy troops were trapped in the zone and got shot easily by machine gun and artillery fire. Barbed wire was used for the first time in South Africa by the British General Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850–1916) against the Boers of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State in 1902. -
Barbed wires
Then, it was widely used in World War I. Barbed wire entanglements were placed in front of trenches to prevent direct charges on men below, increasingly leading to greater use of more advanced weapons such as high powered machine guns and grenades. -
Maxim Machine Gun
Maxim Machine Gun was developed by a English engineer and inventor, Hiram Maxim in 1885.
Britain first used it in many colonial warfare such as First Matabele War in Rhodesia. During the Battle of the Shangani, 700 soldiers fought off 5,000 warriors with just five Maxim guns.
It was widely used in the World War One, which the original design of the machine gun was employed by the European machine guns in 1914. Maxim gun used one of the earliest recoil-operated firing systems in history. -
Maxim Machine Gun
Maxim Gun is a “wild beast” on the battlefield of World War One. It can fire up to 2400 bullets in a single battle. In just one day during the Battle of Somme in 1916, the British lost 21,000 men, the great majority killed by German version of machine gun. -
Maxim Machine Gun
The Maxim Gun was water-cooled and fed from fabric belts; the German version of the gun, the Maschinengewehr, utilized 250-round belts. The whole was mounted on a sledge because 1914 machine guns were excessively heavy; they weighed from 40-60kg, It enabled the gun to be carried in the manner of a stretcher. The Maxim was usually operator by a four to six man team. -
Britian invented the first tank
The idea of the army tank was first proposed in 1914 by Ernest Swinton, a colonel in the British Army, and William Hankley, secretary of the Committee for Imperial Defence. In Great Britain, an initial vehicle, nicknamed Little Willie, was constructed in 1915. The prototype of a new design that became the Mark I tank was demonstrated to the British Army in 1916. -
Tank
The first tanks were implemented in 1917, but it was not successful. The attrition of the caterpillar band during transit is too high, which made it unreliable. It has many advantages over the traditional vehicles, which it can travel through obstacles, especially wide trenches, that wheeled vehicles could not.
Then, Britain appended peripheral weapons such as the British Gun Carrier MK I and steel armor. -
Tank
Then, Germany adopted this technology from Britain and developed their own tank and employed them in WWII. The Panzer series was famous and effective in battles -
Nuclear Bomb
The scientists who invented the bomb included Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Rudolf Peierls and many others..
Nuclear weapons creates enormous destructive power from nuclear fission or combined fission and fusion reactions. Building on scientific breakthroughs made during the 1930s, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada collaborated during World War II, in what was called the Manhattan Project, to counter the suspected Nazi German atomic bomb project. -
Nuclear bomb
On August 6, 1945, a uranium bomb named “Little Boy” (named for its relatively small size) was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the Enola Gay.
It left a "total vaporization" zone of one-half mile in diameter. The "total destruction" area extended to one mile, while the impact of a "severe blast" was felt for two miles. Anything that was flammable within two and a half miles was burned, and blazing infernos were seen up to three miles away. -
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Modern weapons, nuclear bomb, hydrogen bombs (1950-now)
Warfare in the last half of the previous century was dominated by the cold war, and the most representative weapon of modern weaponry would be the nuclear bomb, the most significant but least used weapon during the cold war era. many nations nowadays have or are believed to have nuclear bombs, including China, Britain, France, and North Korea. in 1951, the united states tested an even more powerful weapon, the hydrogen bomb, or the h-bomb, and expanded its tactics and technology. -
Nuclear Bomb
Later, due to its enormous destruction, countries throughout the world have continued to develop nuclear weapons, there have also been movements to promote nuclear disarmament, and anti-nuclear treaties have been signed by major world power.
