trains - 15x faster than on foot, 20mph supplies as apposed to 10 miles per day - first one in balaclava
steamships - Crimean war - faster overseas - 3 weeks to ship men to crimea
Science developments?
Fulminate of mercury - percussion bullets
nitroglycerine - smokeless gunpowder
Communications - telegraph
Governments used to communicate to generals
Newspaper reporters - used to get information
1854- military telegraph detachment in the royal engineers, first field telegraph 24 mile long Crimean battlefront
Mass production
improved - more available steel and iron
identical parts produced in factories - governments could provide equipment for whole army (standardised) - reliable weaponry at a fraction of the cost
Henry Bessemer?
Mass produced steel - cheaper £60 - £7 per ton ( 1856 )
John wilkinson?
1774 - lighter cannon barrels
Hiriam maxim?
Maxim machine gun allowed a belt of 500 bullets to be fired before reloading ( 1884 )
