Technology in World War I

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Technology in World War I발음듣기

World War I shaped our world in many, many, many ways.발음듣기

And it's important to realize it wasn't that long ago.발음듣기

It was not even 100 years ago.발음듣기

But it was really the end of the more traditional empires.발음듣기

It was the end of kingdoms.발음듣기

It really reshaped much of the globe much more around states defined by nations rather than states defined by monarchies or states defined by empires.발음듣기

And it was also the first war where technology, or I would say modern technology - technology has always played a major role in wars.발음듣기

In fact, wars have been a catalyst for technology often.발음듣기

But it was the first time that much of what we consider to be modern technology played a huge role in the actual carrying out of the war.발음듣기

And to a large degree, this is what made the war so much bloodier, and one could argue, even more protracted.발음듣기

So here I have a bunch of pictures of the various technologies used in World War I.발음듣기

Here in this picture you have a machine gun, which obviously allows you to indiscriminately mow down folks.발음듣기

These guys, it looks like they might be in some type of a trench.발음듣기

And so you could imagine that combination if viewed from above.발음듣기

So let's say that this is a trench.발음듣기

This is a trench right over here.발음듣기

We're looking from above.발음듣기

So there's some people sitting in the trench.발음듣기

A couple of these folks have machine guns.발음듣기

The rest of the guys just have rifles over here.발음듣기

If you wanted to storm this trench, you'd be in a bad situation.발음듣기

The guy with the machine gun essentially could just mow people down.발음듣기

They also tended to use barbed wire.발음듣기

Barbed wire wasn't invented in World War I. It was invented many decades before in the 1800s.발음듣기

But that would make it very hard for someone to cross this period.발음듣기

They would get stuck in it.발음듣기

At which point these guys in the trench could shoot him down.발음듣기

And it would be very hard to shoot the guys in the trench.발음듣기

So it also, other than making it very deadly, it gave all the advantages to the defense.발음듣기

So any time someone wanted to gain ground, especially in one of the fronts where trench warfare was being used, it was a hugely, hugely, hugely bloody affair.발음듣기

The other technology that came into mainstream use in World War I was the use of gas, and in particular poison gas.발음듣기

And as you see these gentleman right over here, they're wearing gas masks because they're afraid that their opponent is going to use poison gas.발음듣기

And the benefit of gas in particular is let's say you have an artillery shell that you throw over and it doesn't hit anybody.발음듣기

But then it starts releasing a canister of - let me do that in a different color - it starts releasing a canister of gas.발음듣기

So the gas I've drawn in this purplish color.발음듣기

And so it doesn't have to be a direct hit.발음듣기

It can just linger there and infect that trench.발음듣기

And it'll affect everyone there.발음듣기

And gas warfare was - actually, the Germans weren't first to use just gas warfare.발음듣기

But they were the first to use very lethal, what we would call poison, gas.발음듣기

And in particular in 1915, they used chlorine gas.발음듣기

So let me write that down.발음듣기

Chlorine gas, which immediately attacks the respiratory system of the person who inhales it.발음듣기

And they essentially choke to death within seconds or minutes.발음듣기

They also used phosgene gas because this did not stimulate that choking.발음듣기

And in some ways it could infiltrate the respiratory system even more.발음듣기

It had a delayed effect.발음듣기

So it would linger around.발음듣기

And you have the use of mustard gas.발음듣기

Mustard gas was very hard to protect against.발음듣기

It wouldn't immediately have you choke to death like chlorine gas.발음듣기

It would be severe blistering.발음듣기

It would essentially take you out of the battle.발음듣기

It was very hard to protect against.발음듣기

And it would also linger around in the trench.발음듣기

So it made the trench a very toxic environment to work in.발음듣기

So these are very, very, very ugly weapons.발음듣기

I mean, war itself is ugly.발음듣기

Weapons themselves are ugly.발음듣기

I mean, the machine gun is not a pleasant weapon.발음듣기

It can mow people down.발음듣기

But even folks who view something like a machine gun as an acceptable thing tend to view these things as particularly ugly things to use.발음듣기

Other weapons that showed up in World War I, we talked about this in other videos, but the tank started to become a factor.발음듣기

This right over here is an American tank.발음듣기

Obviously, with these treads it can go in tough terrain.발음듣기

It's heavily, heavily armored.발음듣기

When you talk about this trench type of thing, well, if you've got a big hulking beast, maybe that could roll through the barbed wire and take some beating and maybe eventually - so you could imagine a tank over here, it could eventually - and actually the tanks at this time did not have these big turrets.발음듣기

So they might have looked something more like that.발음듣기

But this might be able to actually be part of an offensive against a trench like this.발음듣기

We've talked extensively about submarine warfare in World War I. The Germans especially used it, essentially to have a chance against the dominant British Navy.발음듣기

Unrestricted U-boat warfare was one of the primary reasons given by the Americans as to why they entered the war on the side of the entente.발음듣기

These are World War I era US submarines, just to give an idea of how they actually looked.발음듣기

And in some ways the best foreshadowing of what would play a major, major, major role in future wars it was the bringing of heavier than air craft into the war.발음듣기

So in particular, we're talking about airplanes.발음듣기

So before this, you had stuff like balloons and zeppelins used for reconnaissance, used to see where we should aim the artillery, things like that.발음듣기

But now you had the Wright brothers only, frankly, several years before inventing the engine powered heavier than air craft.발음듣기

And at first the airplane, in the beginning stages the war, was used for reconnaissance.발음듣기

But as the technology improved, as the engines improved, it started to be used for bombing.발음듣기

It started to actually used for air to air combat.발음듣기

And out of all of the folks involved in air to air combat, this gentleman right over here is probably the most famous.발음듣기

Although you might not recognize his name.발음듣기

He's been turned into a bit of a caricature in the modern world.발음듣기

But this is Manfred von Richthofen.발음듣기

And he was a pilot for the Germans.발음듣기

And he's more famously known as the Red Baron.발음듣기

And he was called the Red Baron because he was actually a Baron.발음듣기

It is a title of nobility in imperial Germany.발음듣기

And he painted his plane red.발음듣기

So this is a picture of his plane right over here.발음듣기

So if I were to color it in - I guess this isn't quite red.발음듣기

I should actually probably try to get a more reddish color.발음듣기

So maybe this is more of a red.발음듣기

So this is obviously a black and white photograph, but maybe if I color it in for you, you'll get more of the feeling of what his plane might have looked like.발음듣기

And it was a triplane.발음듣기

It had these three wings right over here, or three levels of wings.발음듣기

So whatever, his plane was red.발음듣기

That's why he was called the Red Baron.발음듣기

And he was famous for being the most lethal pilot in all of the war.발음듣기

He has 80 confirmed kills.발음듣기

He was able to down 80 enemy aircraft.발음듣기

So 80 confirmed wins, I guess you can say in combat, which is more than any other folks in World War I. So very, very famous pilot.발음듣기

He himself - when you're talking about any of the combatants in World War I did not have a long life expectancy.발음듣기

The pilots especially this was a dangerous game.발음듣기

And he also, despite being the top pilot, the top ace, amongst all the pilots in World War I, he also ended up getting shot in the air in 1918.발음듣기

He literally got shot through the lungs and the heart.발음듣기

He somehow managed to land his plane.발음듣기

And when the people ran up to him, the accounts say, that his famous last words as he died, right when they ran up to him, was "kaput". So interesting.발음듣기

And on top of that, he's now been turned into a bit of a caricature.발음듣기

I mean, us in the West, in the US, we recognize the brand Red Baron pizza.발음듣기

It is named for the Red Baron, for Manfred von Richthofen.발음듣기

Kind of a strange name, I think, for a pizza company.발음듣기

I mean, he's not even Italian.발음듣기

But that's, I guess, what we know him for.발음듣기

But you see, this guy right over here looks a lot more like Tom Selleck than look like the real Manfred von Richthofen.발음듣기

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