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1 Technology & War WWI WWII Closing

2 War Tech 1914 –1918 WWI – Air Age -State-funded -Research organization Government Lab Scientific & Eng. Lab University Labs -Rapid Development WWI WWII Closing

3 War Tech 1799 - 1914 Air Age -1799 Cayley  Glider -1903 Wright Brothers  Powered Airplane -1908 Philips/Cody  First Flight British Army WWI WWII Closing

4 War Tech 1939 –1945 WWII – Dawn of the Atomic Age -Manhattan Project September 17, 1942 till July 16, 1945 -Countless scientists involved -Huge funds from state -Military requirement WWI WWII Closing

5 July 16, 1945 at 5:29:45 a.m. Gadget was detonated in the first atomic explosion in history

6 War Tech 1939 –1945 the Atomic Age “We looked pretty silly. We could have made the discovery at any time” - Robert Thorton, a Rad Lab physicist on artificial readioactivity ( Lawrence’s Lab at Berkeley, 1930-1940) 1932 Cockcroft & Walton  knock  1934 Joliot-Curie  artificial radioactiviy 1944 Einstein  start Nuclear Program Rosenberg WWI WWII Closing

7 August 1945 A-bomb hundreds of thousands of civilians dead Japan rendered » End of the War

8 WWI WWII Closing War Tech ?

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