HIS-3464 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gatling Gun, Franco-Prussian War, Richard Jordan Gatling
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The birth of isms in the 19th century: nationalism, communism, liberalism, and imperialism. The shift from fields/homes to labs: ex. Gives his inheritance for nobel prize: including the peace prize of course. Richard gatling: argued that more people die from disease in warfare then by wounds. This is a product of the industrial revolution. Hiram maxim: maxim gun: changes warfare. Russo-japanese war: first in european history, japan defeats. Russia because it had modernized machines such as the maxim gun. Peter paul mauser: franco prussian war (1871): war between germany and france, german unification. Connecting scientific ideas, industrial wealth/power, and military ends: sometimes called the military-industrial-academic complex : Cooperation of the military and science, people are well pay and its providing jobs for people: named by ike after wwii. He is developing gases that are being used in wwi. He tried to create gold out of salt water. Nationalism, imperialism, and the roots of war.
