Modern Marvels - Season 11 Episode 28 World War I Tech
The first bombing airplanes and widespread use of chemical weapons…earliest tanks…submarines. When Industrial-Age technology and war first mixed on a large scale, the end result was ruthlessly efficient destruction. World War One epitomized the dark underbelly of the Industrial Revolution. We see how technological achievements that streamlined 19th-century production, improved transportation, and expanded science were used to efficiently decimate a generation of soldiers in the early 20th century.
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: History, H2
- Keyword: technology, invention, disaster, construction, machine
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