ENTC 3020

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ENTC 3020 Technology Society

• MilitaryTechnologies

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Weapons

• Primarily progressive extensions of ones reach
• Began as simple tools
• Wooden clubs, spears, stone blades, missiles,
  etc..
• Multiple uses

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Three Basic Goals of All Military Efforts

• FurtherMore Distance
• FasterSwifter Response
• FatterBetter Protected

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Further

• Inches
• Clubs, knives, shields, sticks and stones
• Feet
• Swords, bayonets, spears, and rocks

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A Bit Further...

• Yards
• Bow arrow
• Missiles
• Cannon
• Muskets
• Rifles

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Muskets vs. Rifles

• Musket
• Smooth Bore (Slide Roll)
• Unpredictable Path
• Rifle
• Rifled (Spiral Groove) Barrel
• Bullet spins clockwise
• Spinning gives stability (R/H Rule)
• A stable, straight path

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And Further...

• Miles
• Artillery (Fixed Mobile)
• Rockets

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And Still Further...

• Continents
• Bombers
• Submarines
• Intercontinental ballistic missiles
• MRVs MIRVs

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FasterWeapons

• Muscle
• Man
• Horse
• Catapults

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FasterWeapons

• Simple Machines
• Longbows
• Rams
• Ladders

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FasterWeapons

• Stored Energy
• Crossbow
• Hot oil
• Greek Fire
• Gunpowder
• Cannon, Pistols, Rifles, Grenades
• Lasers

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Bullets

• Full Metal Jacket
• Non-expanding Jacketed slug
• Hague Convention
• Wound vs. Kill
• Variations
• Hollow point
• Soft Point

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FasterWeapons

• Complex Machines
• Machine gun
• Tanks airplanes,
• Ballistic missiles
• Cluster bombs laser guided bombs
• Computers, night vision goggles

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FasterTransportation

• Muscle Powered
• Man
• Beast
• Wind Powered
• Ships

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FasterTransportation

• Mechanized
• Steam ships, river gunboats, submarines
• Railroads
• Trucks, general utility vehicles (Jeeps)
• Armored personnel carriers
• Aircraft

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FasterLogistics

• Early
• Steal, rape, burn, and pillage
• Roads
• Industrial Revolution
• Mass production
• Interchangable parts (Eli Whitney)
• Standardization efforts

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FasterInformation

• EarlyDays to months
• Couriers, carrier pigeons, ships
• 1800sHours to days
• Semaphore
• Telegraph
• Photographs and newspapers

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FasterInformation

• 1900sSeconds to hours
• Radio
• Television
• Satellites
• Faxes
• Aircraft

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FatterArmor

• Personal
• Leather
• Metal armor
• Chain Mail
• Plate Armor
• Kevlar

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FatterArmor

• Mobile armor
• Shields
• Horses
• Vehicles
• Tanks

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FatterArmor

• Public
• Earthen mounds and wooden walls
• Castles
• Bastions
• Anti-aircraft against air threats
• Strategic Defense InitiativeStar Wars
  anti-ballistic missile defense system

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FatterOrganizational

• Greek Phalanx (8 deep)
• Roman 120 man, mobile unit
• European kingdoms and knights

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FatterOrganizational

• Swiss pikemen (19 ft pikes)
• Western Institutionalized military
• Routinized
• Regimented
• Hierarchical

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References

• Burke, J., (1978). Connections. Boston Little,
  Brown, Co.
• Bronnowski, J., (1973). The Ascent of Man.
  Boston Little, Brown, Co.
• Marcus, A. Segal, H. (1989). Technology in
  America A Brief History. San Diego Harcourt
  Brace Jovanovich
• Teich, A., (1993) Technology and the Future (6
  Ed).New York St. Martins Press.
• Volti, R. (1992). Society and Technological
  Change (2nd Ed). New York St. Martins Press.
• Wilson, T., (1974). World Food The Political
  Dimension. Washington, D.C. Aspen Institute for
  Humanistic Studies

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