World War I/Inventions during World War I and their effects

List of German inventions during the Great war

First World War Back Course Overview · Lesson 1 - Introduction · Lesson 2 - "Europe explodes" - The crisis which lead to World War I · Lesson 3 - 1914 - The alliances and their agenda · Lesson 4 - The "Schlieffen Plan" - First weeks of war · Lesson 5 - The Eastern Front · Lesson 6 - Inventions during World War I and their effects · Lesson 7 - War at Sea · Lesson 8 - The United States in World War I · Lesson 9 - The Russian Revolution · Lesson 10 - 1918 - The end of war · Lesson 11 - The Treaty of Versailles · Lesson 12 - The importance of World War I in the History of the 20th Century · Lesson 13 - Conclusion · Lesson 14 - U.S. Foreign Policy after WWI Next

German Inventions

Flamethrower

Possibly the most known of invention of the Great War other than the tank, invented in 1900 by German engineer Richard Fiedler, it was accepted into service of the German army in 1911, though it would not be used until 1915.

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Literature

• The Increasing Power of Destruction: Military Technology in World War I (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• The Social History of the Machine Gun by John Ellis

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