Industrialisation

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  • How did transport change?
    Steam powered transport- faster moving
    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 )
  • George Armstrong ?

    1856 - Armstrong gun - pioneered breach loading guns