World War I/Inventions during World War I and their effects

German Inventions
List of German inventions during the Great war

Flamethrower
Possibly the most known of invention of the Great War other than the tank, invented in 1900 by German engineer Richard Fiedler, it was accepted into service of the German army in 1911, though it would not be used until 1915.

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Literature

 * The Increasing Power of Destruction: Military Technology in World War I (American Memory, Library of Congress)
 * The Social History of the Machine Gun by John Ellis