Sunday, August 12, 2012

The Technology of Warfare in 1862 [Slide Show]

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A Look Back in Scientific American's Archives

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During 1862, while the Civil War raged across the country, Scientific American periodically covered inventions that were designed to help some aspect of the military effort. Some were considered to be patentable but were in reality perfectly useless, while others were harbingers of how war was to be fought down through the next century and a half.

These inventions from 1862 came from some of the best minds in the business of military technology. A few of them, unfortunately, came from some of most clueless brains.

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