HST 701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Attitude Indicator, Factory System, Frederick Winslow Taylor
13 Sep 2016
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Hst 701 - scientific technology and modern society. Winston churchill, first lord of the admiralty. 20 used at 1st battle of the somme - to be effective, more was needed. 500 hundred british tanks at cambrai 20 november 1917 broke german lines and the stalemate. Turned the fortunes of world war 1. Fritz haber (1869-1934) in 1908 at karlsruhe university discovered method to fix atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia; used for fertilizers and nitrate explosives (gunpowder) He and carl bosch of basf worked to industrialize process: ammonia plant was established at oppau in. Allies during world war 1 had to import nitrates from chile. Admiral graf von spee sank two british battleships and disrupted allied shipping. At battle of the falklands two british destroyers sank von spee"s ship. But the germans had no natural nitrates supplies. The haber process literally prolonged ww1 by four years, leading to millions of deaths.
