Why was there so much new technology in world war 1?
Well, it was the first major large-scale war in a while, and during that time (from the late 1800’s until the outbreak in 1914) it was sort of obvious to all the European countries that a big war would eventually and inevitably come, and so to prepare for it, they developed and built up all their weapons. The navies especially swelled up in size as the british relentlessly built dreadnought battleships and the germans built submarines. It’s interesting to think that some technology had already existed, such as airplanes, but WW1 was the first time they were used for warful purposes, while other technologies were invented as a direct result of the war, like tanks, which were conceived as a way of overcoming the deadlocked trench positions of the western front. Another reason why there was so much technology was because of the recent industrial advancements, it was simply easier, cheaper, and quicker to produce weapons like artillery guns and shells than it was to conscript and train sol
