HIST 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gas Cylinder, Mental Floss, Marie Currie
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Tanks: french renault tank was developed to get through no man"s land. It was a light six-ton vehicles designed for close infantry support which was adopted by the us corp: us army developed its own tanks through the british success. Although germany was skeptical about the tank it acted as a stimulus to the battlefield. Flame throwers: the first war use occurred during the trench warfare when the enemies hid in the dugout of the trenches. It was used by germany on february, 1915 verdun and at the battle of ypres on july. 30, 1915. : the first effective use was by germany on british at hodge in flanders. A gas cylinder was strapped to the man using it with a nozzle. In the ypres attack, the german had delivered their chlorine by using pressurised cylinders. For the attack at loos, the british also used gas cylinders.
