Inventions of the Great War

Nearly fifteen million tons of shipping lie at the bottom of the sea, sunk by German U-boats, and the value of these ships with their cargo is estimated at over seven billion do...

We Americans are a peace-loving people, which is the very reason why we went into the war. We had to help down the power that was disturbing the peace of the world. We do not be...

When the news came that big shells were dropping into Paris from a gun which must be at least seventy miles away, the world at first refused to believe; then it imagined that so...

Before the war, an aviator when on the wing was both deaf and dumb. He could communicate with other airplanes or with the ground only by signal or, for short distances, by radio...

Some years ago the nations of the world gathered at the city of The Hague, in Holland, to see what could be done to put an end to war. They did not accomplish much in that direc...

Shortly after the Civil War broke out, Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, an enthusiastic American aëronaut, conceived the idea of sending up scout balloons to reconnoiter the position of the...

Many years ago a boy tried his hand at firing a United States Army service rifle. It was a heavy rifle of the Civil War period, and the lad did not know just how to hold it. He...

When the great European war broke out, it was very evident that the Entente Allies would have to exercise every resource to beat the foe which had been preparing for years to co...

The U-boat commander who sallied forth from the harbor of Wilhelmshaven in the early days of the war had nothing to fear. He was out to murder, not to fight. His prey was always...

In modern warfare a duel between fixed forts and floating forts is almost certain to end in a draw. Because the former are fixed they make good targets, while the war-ship, bein...

After seeing how the Huns used the submarine we are not so sure that we can take much pride in its invention. But if any blame attaches to us for developing the submarine, we ma...

In primitive times battles were fought hand-to-hand. The first implements of war were clubs and spears and battle-axes, all intended for fighting at close quarters. The bow and...

There is no race-horse that can keep up with an automobile, no deer that can out-run a locomotive. A bicyclist can soon tire out the hardiest of hounds. Why? Because animals run...

Every person with a good pair of eyes in his head is a range-finder. He may not know it, but he is, just the same, and the way to prove it is to try a little range-finding on a...

For years the Germans had been preparing for war. The whole world knew this, but it had no idea how elaborate were their preparations, and how these were carried out to the very...

The war on the submarine was fought mainly from the surface of the sea and from the air above the sea, and naturally it resulted in many interesting naval developments.