WWI Technology

WWI Technology

1. Tanks

   • Able to cross trenches/barbed wire
   • Scattered German infantry
   • Protect infantry going forward
   • Bullet proof
   • Mounted machine guns
   • Very slow - about 4mph
   • Uncomfortable and dangerous inside - shrapnel

2. Machine guns

   • 600 bullets a minute
   • Killed thosands of men
   • Became portable

3. Aircraft

   • Used for reconnaisance
   • Photograph enemy lines
   • Protect troops in the trench
   • Bomb enemy trenches

4. Gas

   • Unreliable - wind could turn and blow gas back
   • Chloride/mustard/phosgene/tear
   • Caused suffocating/choking, blindness, blisters/burns
   • Initially killed thousands, but rarely used after 1917