where can i find a time line of cival war inventions?

Question

me and my friend are doing a report on cival war inventions could u recomend any good websites?

Answer 1

- The submarine
- The snorkel
- Mine fields
- Water mines
- Trench Warfare
- Wire entanglements
- Aerial reconnaissance (Balloons)
- Military telegraph
- Repeating rifles
- Scopes for rifles
- Military railroads
- Steel Ships
- Working machine gun
- Army ambulance corps
- Revolving gun turrets
- Hospital ships
- Railroad artillery
- U.S. Secret Service
- Conscription
- The Medal of Honor
- Battle photography
- Electrically exploded bombs
- Anesthesia
- Camouflage
- Hand grenades
- Smoke screen
- Double Barreled Cannon

http://thomaslegion.net/crater.html
http://www.civilwarhome.com/civilwarfirsts.htm
http://thomaslegion.net/photos.html

Answer 2

The Coal Torpedo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_torpedo

"- 1860 Repeating Rifle : B. Tyler Henry, chief designer for Oliver Fisher Winchester's arms company, adapts a breech-loading rifle invented by Walter B. Hunt and creates a new lever action repeating rifle. First known as the Henry, the rifle will soon be famous as simply the Winchester."

"- 1861 Modern Pin Tumbler Lock : Linus Yale Jr. improved upon his father's original design (patented in 1848) in 1861, using a smaller, flat key with serrated edges that is the basis of modern pin-tumbler locks."

"- 1863 Roller Skates : James Plimpton of Medford, Massachusetts, gives the world the first practical four-wheeled roller skate. This sets off a roller craze that quickly spreads across the U.S. and Europe."

"- 1865 Web Offset Printing : William Bullock introduced a printing press that could feed paper on a continuous roll and print both sides of the paper at once. Used first by the Philadelphia Ledger, the machine would become an American standard. It would also kill its maker, who died when he accidentally fell into one of his presses."

"- 1867 Barbed Wire : Farmer Henry Rose, invents the product that will close down the open cattle ranges by closing in cattle onto individual plots of privately owned land. I.L. Ellwood and Company's Glidden Steel Barb Wire will dominate the market; by 1890 the open range will be only a memory."

"List of United States inventions" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_inventions

See also "Civil War "Firsts" " : http://www.civilwarhome.com/civilwarfirsts.htm

And : "Inventions and Gadgets used by Civil War Soldiers" : http://www.civilwarhome.com/inventionsandgadgets.htm

Answer 3

One such source could be:

http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/1860-1869.html

Another is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_invention

And another could be:

http://www.answers.com/topic/timeline-of-invention

There are many such sites and many are focused on types of inventions (such as: http://www.nia.org/timeline/1860.htm which is about electrical wire insulators)
, areas, groups of people, or some such specialty area. You may have to go through several to get a comprehensive list.

Much of your search will depend on if you are seeking specific types of inventions or generalized patent activity.

Answer 4

start looking during the time period of the war....especially in medicine and weapons.(rapid fire ones)..battle tactics, even though may not be a tangible item...definitely have their influences on outcome in wars to come..Rommel studied the battle tactics of General Nathan Bedford Forrest...to the point of coming to Tennessee and studying his strategies on mobility.....