Industrialisation (Edexcel GCSE History): Flashcards

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Period when industrialisation transformed warfare

c1700-c1900

Train speed increase vs troops marching on foot

15 times faster

Railway supply transport speed (mph)

20 miles per hour

Location of first military railway

Balaclava

Steamship speed vs traditional sailing vessels

Double the speed

Electric telegraph's main military benefit

Instant communication across vast distances

Year British Military Telegraph detachment formed

1854

Fulminate of mercury's use in weaponry

Reliable explosive for percussion bullets

Chemical source of smokeless gunpowder

Nitroglycerine

Smokeless gunpowder's tactical advantage

Made firing positions harder to locate

Henry Bessemer's innovation year

1856

Bessemer steel cost reduction per ton

£60 to £7

George Armstrong's 1857 innovation

Breech-loading rifled design (Armstrong gun)

Year Hiram Maxim developed his machine gun

1884

Maxim gun bullets fired before manual reload needed

500 bullets

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