"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."
World War I saw significant advances in military technology, including machine guns, tanks, airplanes, and submarines.
Weapons Technology: The development and use of firearms, artillery, grenades, and tanks during World War I, including their advantages and limitations.
Communication Technology: The evolution of communication technology, including telegraphs, telephones, radios, and wireless communication, and their use during the war.
Aviation Technology: The evolution of aviation technology during World War I, including the use of planes for reconnaissance, bombing, and dogfighting.
Chemical Warfare: The development and use of chemical weapons, such as chlorine gas and mustard gas, and their impact on the course of the war.
Medical Technology: The advances in medical technology that occurred during the war, including new surgical techniques, treatments for infectious diseases, and prosthetic devices.
Transportation Technology: The role of transportation technology, including railways, automobiles, and ships, in the war effort, including the movement of troops and supplies.
Manufacturing Technology: The impact of new manufacturing techniques, including the assembly line, on the production of weapons, ammunition, and other war-related equipment.
Industrial Technology: The use of machines and technology in the war effort, including the development of new materials, such as steel and chemicals, and the increase in mechanical power.
Intelligence Technology: The development and use of intelligence technology, including cryptography, spy planes, and secret agents.
Social and Cultural Technology: The impact of the war on society and culture, including the use of propaganda, the role of women in the war effort, and the impact of the war on art and literature.
Tanks: Armored vehicles that traverse rough terrain, equipped with guns and machine guns.
Aircraft: Planes used for reconnaissance, bombing, and fighting in air-to-air combat.
Submarines: Watercraft that operate underwater, equipped with torpedoes and used for attacking ships.
Artillery: Large guns used for firing shells at enemy targets from a distance.
Machine Guns: Automatic weapons that can fire multiple rounds of ammunition quickly.
Poison Gas: Chemical weapons used to kill or injure soldiers by releasing toxic gases into the air.
Flamethrowers: Weapon that projects a stream of burning liquid for attacking enemy positions.
Trench Warfare: The use of long, narrow ditches for soldiers to take shelter in from enemy gunfire.
Telegraphs/Radios: Communication technology used for sending messages across long distances.
Barbed Wire: Sharp wire used to create obstacles and prevent ground movement.
Mines: Explosive devices hidden in the ground to kill or injure soldiers.
Grenades: Small explosive devices that can be thrown by hand.
Searchlights: Powerful beams of light used for reconnaissance and signaling.
Tanks: Armored vehicles that traverse rough terrain, equipped with guns and machine guns.
Airships: Large, powered balloons used for reconnaissance and bombing enemy positions.
Wireless Telephones: Communication technology used for mobile transmissions.
"This trend began at least fifty years prior to World War I during the American Civil War of 1861–1865."
"World War I weapons included types standardized and improved over the preceding period, together with some newly developed types using innovative technology and a number of improvised weapons used in trench warfare."
"Military technology of the time included important innovations in machine guns, grenades, and artillery, along with essentially new weapons such as submarines, poison gas, warplanes, and tanks."
"The earlier years of the First World War could be characterized as a clash of 20th-century technology with 19th-century military science creating ineffective battles with huge numbers of casualties on both sides."
"On land, the quick descent into trench warfare came as a surprise."
"Only in the final year of the war did the major armies make effective steps in revolutionizing matters of command and control and tactics to adapt to the modern battlefield."
"The myriad new technologies [were harnessed] to effective military purposes."
"Tactical reorganizations (such as shifting the focus of command from the 100+ man company to the 10+ man squad) went hand-in-hand with armored cars, the first submachine guns, and automatic rifles that a single individual soldier could carry and use."
"...a number of improvised weapons used in trench warfare."
"Essentially new weapons such as submarines, poison gas, warplanes, and tanks" were used in World War I.
"[The earlier years of the war] could be characterized as a clash of 20th-century technology with 19th-century military science creating ineffective battles with huge numbers of casualties on both sides."
"[I]n the final year of the war" the major armies made effective steps in revolutionizing matters of command and control.
"World War I weapons included types standardized and improved over the preceding period, together with some newly developed types using innovative technology."
"This trend began at least fifty years prior to World War I during the American Civil War of 1861–1865."
"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."
"Military technology of the time included important innovations in machine guns, grenades, and artillery."
"Essentially new weapons such as submarines, poison gas, warplanes, and tanks" were used in the war.
"The quick descent into trench warfare came as a surprise."
"The major armies make effective steps in revolutionizing matters of command and control and tactics to adapt to the modern battlefield and start to harness the myriad new technologies to effective military purposes."