Science, Technology and Warfare: The Machine Gun Technology
Using examples primarily from World War I, people, quotations, battles and specific data, conduct a detailed research on the machine gun technology and how the technology transformed modern warfare especially from older warfare tactics such as the Napoleonic tactics and how it impacted on modern warfare.
Your response / research must include the following elements:
1. Origin and History of the Machine Gun
2. The Machine Gun Technology in 1914
3. The Machine Gun Design
4. The Offensive Tactical Power of the Machine Gun Technology
5. The Napoleonic Wars of 1796-1815
6. The Machine Gun and the Land Combat
7. Background of Tactics Leading up to World War 1
8. American Contribution to the Machine Gun and the Transformation of Tactics
9. How the Machine Gun Affected the War Tactics during the 1st World War.