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Airplane Bombs ** ||  || The airplanes of this era were made of wood and canvas. This means that if the plane caught fire, certain death with usually in store for its passengers. The pilots didn't wear parachutes. The plane's maximum speed was 100 miles per hour. In the beginning of the war, airplane combat was not known to the public. The planes mostly took pictures of behind the enemy lines from the air. ​This was until some pilots took up rifles and pistols, giving the inventors the idea of putting machine guns on the planes. After this, the pubic and press idolized heroic pilots. During the war, no one knew which side had won each battle in the sky. ||
 * **Mustard Gas** || [[image:tobolski_mustard_gas.jpg width="283" height="162"]] || Mustard Gas was an invisible killer that was odorless. It was first used by Germany in 1917. It caused soldier's skin to blister, eyes to become painful and eventually blind, caused external and internal bleeding, and attacked the bronchial tubes, causing the throat to close. This was a slow and painful death that took four to five weeks. The mustard was put into shells that were buried near enemy camp. The shells took twelve hours to activate and once they were activated, they stayed active for multiple weeks. ||
 * ** Flamethrower ** || [[image:tobolski_flamethrower.jpg width="272" height="199"]] || A flamethrower is a weapon used to spread fire by launching burning fuel. The flamethrower was not invented during this time period. The earliest record is from five B.C., which were long tubes filled with burning objects, that the operator blew toward their enemy. During World War One, two types of flamethrowers were created by a german man named Richard Fiedler. They were called (in german) Kleinflammenwerfer and Grossflammenwerfer. The Klienflammenwerfer model was created to be portable and used by one man. Its used pressurized air, carbon dioxide or nitrogen to shoot a stream of burning oil as far as eighteen meters. The Grossflammenwerfer model was larger and heavier then the Kleinflammenwerfer model, but it could shoot double the amount of the Klienflammenwerfer and could shoot a stream of burning oil for forty seconds. The Grossflammenwerfer was deemed expensive becauseof its excessive use of fuel. ||
 * ** Machine Gun ** || [[image:tobolski_machine_gun.jpg width="282" height="164"]] || Machine guns during this time (1914) were very unstable. Their barrels would often get overheated and jam. By the middle of the war, water jackets and air vents were devised. The water jackets were bags filled with water and draped over the gun to cool it. The air vents were holes drilled into the barrel of the gun. Both methods ocassionally overheated and jammed. The 1914 machine guns weighed thirty to sixty kilograms, and required four to six men to operate. They were estimated to be able to fire four hundred to six hundred small calibre rounds per minute, which was doubled by the end of the war. ||
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 * ** Barbed Wire ** || [[image:tobolski_barbed_wire.gif width="280" height="194"]] || Barbed wire was used on the frontlines in front of trenches and were set up by wiring parties. Wiring parties were groups of men who went into the battlefield during the middle of the night to set up wire blockades. Each side of the frontline (ours and the enemies) were very close. It was not unusual for opposite side wiring parties to meet. The men would fight with their hands and pistols until someone ran behind the barbed wire and began shooting a machine gun. Also, the men watched for enemy flares that lit up the battlefield. The men would usually jump to the ground and lay flat. This was because machine gun fire usually followed the flares. Barbed wire was used because it was difficult to destroy. ||
 * ** Armored Tank ** || [[image:tobolski_tankk.jpg width="279" height="198"]] || The British were the first to use and build an effective tank. The first time the tank was used was at the Flers Attack. The germans were stunned and the British won. The first tank weighed fourteen tons, could carry three people uncomfortably, and had a top speed of three miles per hour on level ground, whereas on the battlefield it could only go two miles per hour because of the rough terrain. The tank was called a tank becase it resembled a water carrier used in that era. The first tank verse tank attack was on April 24th, 1918. It was germany against Britain and Austrailia. By the end of the war, France was the leader in tank production with 4,800 tanks. Germany had 20 tanks and United Kindom had 2,818 tanks. ||
 * ** Cannons ** || [[image:tobolski_cannons.jpg width="282" height="182"]] || A cannon is any artillary that used gun powder or other explosives to shoot a projectile. The cannon was first used in China, but was invented by Ctesibius of Alexandia in third century B.C. By World War One, the accuracy of cannons were improved. This meant they became deadlier. In World War One, seventy percent of deaths were caused by cannons indirect fire. Indirect fire was when weapons would be fired without seeing the target, but you calculate the distance and angle to the target. Also, they used cannons for trench warfare. Before the war, Germany had more cannons then France did. This gave them an advantage. ||
 * ** Submarines ** || [[image:tobolskisubmarine.jpg width="288" height="194"]] || By the start of the war, many countries had submarines. The leaders were Great Britain with seventy four submarines, France with sixty two submarines, Russia with forty eight submarines and the United States with thirty submarines.Germany had twenty eight submarines with seventeen being buily. By 1914, Germany had 127 submarines. In February of 1915, Germany began unrestricted submarine warfare and over two months sunk twenty five merchant ships. The British set up a blockade around Germany. Germany destroyed multiple passenger liners and in turn killed many people from all around the entire world. Also, Germany set up mines in the water. British and the British allies began fighting against Germany. ||
 * ** Land Mines ** || [[image:tobolski_land_mine.jpg width="278" height="177"]] || A land mine is a victim-triggered explosive device which is intended to hurt or damage its target by a blast or fragments. Mines became large scale in 1918 to fight assualt tanks.Germany also used triplines. Triplines were thin strings of wire run across an area that were connected to an explosive device. Then when someone or something pulled or ran through the wire, the explosives would go off. Triplines were bad because the were dangerous for both sides. This meant that the triplines couldn't tell if it was an enemy or an ally that pulled the wire. During World War One, use of land mines was somewhat controlled, unlike today. ||

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