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Technology during World War I (1914–1918) reflected a trend toward industrialism and the application of mass-production methods to weapons and to the technology of warfare in general. This trend began at least fifty years prior to World War I during the American Civil War of 1861–1865, [ 1 ] and continued through many smaller conflicts in ...
Edged weapons. M1858/61 Kavalleriesäbel; M1862 Infanteriesäbel; ... The Machine Gun: History, Evolution and Development of Manually Operated, Full Automatic, ...
Chemical weapons were deployed by all major belligerents throughout the war, inflicting approximately 1.3 million casualties, of which about 90,000 were fatal. [259] The use of chemical weapons in warfare was a direct violation of the 1899 Hague Declaration Concerning Asphyxiating Gases and the 1907 Hague Convention on Land Warfare , which ...
More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] More than 9 million combatants were killed , largely because of great technological advances in firepower without corresponding advances in mobility.
Mauser Gewehr 98 and bayonet. Bayard M1908 (semi-automatic pistol); Beholla M1915 (semi-automatic pistol); Bergmann–Bayard M1910 (semi-automatic pistol); Bergmann MP 18-I (submachine gun)
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Long barrel recoil technology placed the gun within a barrel that included a system to absorb the momentum from firing the gun, allowing the weapon to remain stationary when it was fired. [ 3 ] The German General Staff had learned from the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) the importance of heavy artillery in destroying enemy guns and positions ...