https://padlet.com/j_mey4532/tkhvgc404zwr Jaylynn Meyers and Kareem Hyman en-us 2018-04-24 17:16:03 UTC 2018-04-24 17:44:34 UTC hello@padlet.com j_mey4532 https://padlet.com/j_mey4532/tkhvgc404zwr/wish/254946809 The machine gun, which so came to dominate and even to personify the battlefields of World War One, was a fairly primitive device when general war began in August 1914.  Machine guns of all armies were largely of the heavy variety and decidedly ill-suited to portability for use by rapidly advancing infantry troops.  Each weighed somewhere in the 30kg-60kg range - often without their mountings, carriages and supplies.
The gun would have 4 to 6 operators and it could fire 400 to 600 rounds per minute however these guns would overheat .]]> 2018-04-24 17:27:14 UTC https://padlet.com/j_mey4532/tkhvgc404zwr/wish/254946809 k_hym4574 https://padlet.com/j_mey4532/tkhvgc404zwr/wish/254949054 The gases used in World War 1 were crude but effective. In fact, technically many of them were not gases but minute solid particles suspended in air like the spray from an aerosol can.These gasses were used to kill people in trenches ,and can be seen to be a game changer in WW1. ]]> 2018-04-24 17:31:17 UTC https://padlet.com/j_mey4532/tkhvgc404zwr/wish/254949054 j_mey4532 https://padlet.com/j_mey4532/tkhvgc404zwr/wish/254952157 The caterpillar track, upon which the tank travelled, was designed in its crudest form in 1770 by Richard Edgeworth.  The Crimean War saw a relatively small number of steam powered tractors developed using the caterpillar track to manoeuvre around the battlefield's muddy terrain.  Thus even in the 1850s the development of the tank seemed tantalisingly close - except that its development dimmed until the turn of the century.The first combat tank was ready by January 1916 and was demonstrated to a high-powered audience.  Convinced, Lloyd George - the Minister of Munitions - ordered production of the heavy Mark I model to begin (the lighter renowned 'Whippets' entered service the following year).]]> 2018-04-24 17:37:10 UTC https://padlet.com/j_mey4532/tkhvgc404zwr/wish/254952157 k_hym4574 https://padlet.com/j_mey4532/tkhvgc404zwr/wish/254954120 little more than a decade after the Wright brothers' historic flight at Kittyhawk, the demands of war transformed the airplane into a weapon of death. Made of wood, canvas and wire, these early fighters took to the air filled with gasoline, ammunition and the likelihood that too steep a dive would rip the wings to shreds. It is no wonder that the pilots of these flimsy fliers measured their life expectancy in weeks. These planes revolutionized transportation and killing in WW1. and can be seen as the only way to break a stalemate even tho it didn"t.]]> 2018-04-24 17:40:51 UTC https://padlet.com/j_mey4532/tkhvgc404zwr/wish/254954120