Written for general readers during the First World War, this survey explains how peaceful arts serve in battle and how the machinery of modern war came to be. Chapters cover gunpowder and its successors, radium, submarine and land mines, military bridges, warships, rifles, tanks and the engineering behind them, all in a popular, descriptive manner.
A vivid snapshot of how technology looked to the public in 1915–18, for readers interested in the history of the Great War. Download the free EPUB.