Timeline of War : From Early Weaponary to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Beyond
War is violent and destructive by its very nature, but wartime is also a period of great social and technological change. Some of the most important inventions ever conceived were meant as solutions to the problems of war. Hitler created the autobahn in order to improve the German infrastructure to prepare for war. In 1946, scientist Percy Spencer discovered that the magnetron (the heart of a mili...
War is violent and destructive by its very nature, but wartime is also a period of great social and technological change. Some of the most important inventions ever conceived were meant as solutions to the problems of war. Hitler created the autobahn in order to improve the German infrastructure to prepare for war. In 1946, scientist Percy Spencer discovered that the magnetron (the heart of a mili...
