HIST115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Blitzkrieg, List Of Black Mirror Episodes, Yuri Gagarin
21 Jan 2016
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Lecture 13 - technoscience and warfare: why germany, from turbojet to rocketry. 1915 wright model b primitive airplanes. 30 years later first view of earth from space taken by. Chemical warfare but us didn"t recognize it for what it was first in us would be the manhatten project (atomic bomb: fundamental shift technology to cope with the environment. Technoscience warfare/money: in 5 years most of modern technologies created: words) Atomic energy-germans first to split the atom- first to invent atomic bomb (us first built atomic bomb), first to build (non-working) nuclear reactor. Z3 first modern computer 1943 (memory of 60. Z4 first commercial computer could be bought (not by anyone though, only part of. World"s first guided missiles (autopilot adjusted speed and altitude) v1 not a rocket (bomb powered by pulsejet engine) 1916 0 first combat use battle of somme made apparent that tanks were useless for warfare death traps (slow, surround by high temp & fuel)
