Military invention

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A military invention is an invention that was first created by a military. There are many inventions that were originally created by the military and subsequently found civilian uses.

Military inventions with civilian uses

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Name	Date invented	Invented by	Original purpose	Civilian uses
ASDIC	1910s	Template:Country data UK United Kingdom Template:Country data France France	Submarine detection	Sonar
Radar	mid-1930s	Template:Country data UK United Kingdom^[1]^[2]	Early warning radar, air defence systems	Air traffic control systems, microwave oven
Walkie-talkie	1930s	Template:Country data Canada Canada (Donald Hings)^[3] 23x15px United States (Alfred J. Gross, Motorola SCR-300)	Portable two-way radio communications system for military	Portable radio communications – business, public safety, marine, amateur radio, CB radio
Night vision	1939 - 1940s	Template:Country data Nazi Germany Nazi Germany Template:Country data USA United States	Visibility for military personnel in low light situations	Low light photography, surveillance
Duct tape	1942	Template:Country data USA United States	Sealing ammunition cases	Multiple uses
Ballistic missiles	1940s	Template:Country data Nazi Germany Nazi Germany Template:Country data USSR Soviet Union	Long range attack	Space exploration, launch of communication, weather and global positioning satellites
Nuclear technology	1940s	Template:Country data USA United States Template:Country data UK United Kingdom Template:Country data Canada Canada (Manhattan Project)	Nuclear weapons	Nuclear medicine, nuclear power
Jet engine	1940s	Template:Country data Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (Hans von Ohain) Template:Country data UK United Kingdom (Frank Whittle)	Jet fighters, jet bombers	Airliners
Digital photography	1960s	Template:Country data USA United States Template:Country data USSR Soviet Union	Spy satellites, eliminated the need to recover deorbited film canisters	Digital cameras
Compiler	1952	Template:Country data USA United States	Allow programs to be written for multiple target computers by different vendors without needing to rewrite the assembly for each of them.	Compiler
Internet	1960s - 1970s	Template:Country data USA United States (ARPANET)^[4] Template:Country data UK United Kingdom (NPL network)^[4] Template:Country data France France (CYCLADES)^[4]	Reliable computer networking	Led to invention of the World Wide Web by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee; subsequently widespread availability of information, telecommunication and electronic commerce
Rodriguez well	1960s	Template:Country data USA United States Army	Nuclear weapons and logistics, provide water supply for bases hidden in polar regions	Colonization of Mars
Satellite navigation	1970s	Template:Country data USA United States Air Force Template:Country data USSR Soviet Union	Nuclear weapons force multiplier, increased warhead accuracy through precise navigation	Navigation, personal tracking
Sanitary napkins	1920s	Template:Country data UK United Kingdom Template:Country data France France	Prevent bleeding using cellulose in bandages.	British & American nurses picked up the bandages and started using them as Sanitary Napkins.

References

↑ Angela Hind (February 5, 2007). "Briefcase 'that changed the world'". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6331897.stm. Retrieved 2007-08-16. "It not only changed the course of the war by allowing us to develop airborne radar systems, it remains the key piece of technology that lies at the heart of your microwave oven today. The cavity magnetron's invention changed the world."
↑ Harford, Tim (9 October 2017). "How the search for a 'death ray' led to radar". BBC World Service. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41188464. Retrieved 9 October 2017. "But by 1940, it was the British who had made a spectacular breakthrough: the resonant cavity magnetron, a radar transmitter far more powerful than its predecessors.... The magnetron stunned the Americans. Their research was years off the pace."
↑ Don-Hings-Walkie-Talkie-Development.PDF^{[dead link]}
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Kim, Byung-Keun (2005). Internationalising the Internet the Co-evolution of Influence and Technology. Edward Elgar. pp. 51–55. ISBN 1845426754. https://books.google.com/books?id=lESrw3neDokC&pg=PA53none ; Hauben, Ronda (1 May 2004). "The Internet: On its International Origins and Collaborative Vision A Work In-Progress". http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/other/misc/haubenpap.rtf. Retrieved 25 September 2017none ; "How the Internet Came to Be". 1993. http://elk.informatik.hs-augsburg.de/tmp/cdrom-oss/CerfHowInternetCame2B.html. Retrieved 25 September 2017. "We began doing concurrent implementations at Stanford, BBN, and University College London. So effort at developing the Internet protocols was international from the beginning." ; "The Computer History Museum, SRI International, and BBN Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of First ARPANET Transmission, Precursor to Today's Internet". SRI International. 27 October 2009. https://www.sri.com/newsroom/press-releases/computer-history-museum-sri-international-and-bbn-celebrate-40th-anniversary. Retrieved 25 September 2017. "But the ARPANET itself had now become an island, with no links to the other networks that had sprung up. By the early1970s, researchers in France, the UK, and the U.S. began developing ways of connecting networks to each other, a process known as internetworking."

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[Hind-1] Angela Hind (February 5, 2007). "Briefcase 'that changed the world'". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6331897.stm. Retrieved 2007-08-16. "It not only changed the course of the war by allowing us to develop airborne radar systems, it remains the key piece of technology that lies at the heart of your microwave oven today. The cavity magnetron's invention changed the world."

[2] Harford, Tim (9 October 2017). "How the search for a 'death ray' led to radar". BBC World Service. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41188464. Retrieved 9 October 2017. "But by 1940, it was the British who had made a spectacular breakthrough: the resonant cavity magnetron, a radar transmitter far more powerful than its predecessors.... The magnetron stunned the Americans. Their research was years off the pace."

[3] Don-Hings-Walkie-Talkie-Development.PDF^{[dead link]}

[Internet-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Kim, Byung-Keun (2005). Internationalising the Internet the Co-evolution of Influence and Technology. Edward Elgar. pp. 51–55. ISBN 1845426754. https://books.google.com/books?id=lESrw3neDokC&pg=PA53none ; Hauben, Ronda (1 May 2004). "The Internet: On its International Origins and Collaborative Vision A Work In-Progress". http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/other/misc/haubenpap.rtf. Retrieved 25 September 2017none ; "How the Internet Came to Be". 1993. http://elk.informatik.hs-augsburg.de/tmp/cdrom-oss/CerfHowInternetCame2B.html. Retrieved 25 September 2017. "We began doing concurrent implementations at Stanford, BBN, and University College London. So effort at developing the Internet protocols was international from the beginning." ; "The Computer History Museum, SRI International, and BBN Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of First ARPANET Transmission, Precursor to Today's Internet". SRI International. 27 October 2009. https://www.sri.com/newsroom/press-releases/computer-history-museum-sri-international-and-bbn-celebrate-40th-anniversary. Retrieved 25 September 2017. "But the ARPANET itself had now become an island, with no links to the other networks that had sprung up. By the early1970s, researchers in France, the UK, and the U.S. began developing ways of connecting networks to each other, a process known as internetworking."

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