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War Tech1914 –1918WWI – Air Age

-State-funded

-Research organizationGovernment LabScientific & Eng. LabUniversity Labs

-Rapid Development

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War Tech1799 - 1914Air Age

-1799 Cayley Glider

-1903 Wright Brothers Powered Airplane

-1908 Philips/Cody First Flight British Army

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War Tech1939 –1945WWII – Dawn of the Atomic Age

-Manhattan ProjectSeptember 17, 1942 till July 16, 1945

-Countless scientists involved

-Huge funds from state

-Military requirement

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July 16, 1945 at 5:29:45 a.m.

Gadget was detonated in the first atomic explosion

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War Tech1939 –1945the Atomic Age

“We looked pretty silly. We could have made the discovery at any time”- Robert Thorton, a Rad Lab physicist on artificial readioactivity ( Lawrence’s Lab at Berkeley, 1930-1940)

1932 Cockcroft & Walton knock

1934 Joliot-Curie artificial radioactiviy

1944 Einstein start Nuclear Program Rosenberg

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August 1945 A-bomb

hundreds of thousands of civilians dead

Japan rendered » End of the War

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