The Technological Advances of WWI

Brianna Larson

Machine guns

• Portability and weight

• Requirements

• Downsides

• Outcome with no machine guns?

Tanks

• Crew

• Speed

• Downside

• Upside

• End of the war

Torpedoes

• Development

• Characteristics

• Vastly…

• Used against…

Gas and Gas Masks

• Gas

• Effects

• Gas Masks

Trenches

• Death

• Rats

• Rapid population growth

• Lice

• Trench Fever

• Trench Foot

References• http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/machineguns.htm• http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW1/weapons.htm• http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/tanks.htm• http://techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us/group9/seawar.htm• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo• http://www.shmoop.com/wwi/science-technology.html• http://www.google.com/search?

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• http://www.google.com/images.htm• http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/trenchlife.htm