10 Inventions That Owe Their Success to World War One
23rd April 2014
From now on, if anybody comes up to you and says ‘WAR … uh … What is it good for?”, you’ve got an answer for them.
23rd April 2014
From now on, if anybody comes up to you and says ‘WAR … uh … What is it good for?”, you’ve got an answer for them.
April 23rd, 2014 at 09:20
Add to the list dispersion modeling, which is the basis of antipollution controls. When the Brits started using chlorine gas, they often poisoned their own troops instead of the enemy. Studies were done to derive mathematical relations of wind and the dispersion of poison gas. Those factors are still used in EPA’s dispersion models. Modeling poison gas (and later pollutants) led to the more extensive modeling used in weather prediction.
Of the list, I could do without DST and vegetarian sausages. In fact, vegetarian sausages are not really sausages, just like white chocolate is not chocolate and like Democrats are not really in favor of democracy.