http://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/ Switched Comments for 5 Weapons That Changed the World http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/http://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/Jul 7th 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/http://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/Jul 7th 2009 2:52PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/http://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/BTW, You might add the stirrup, the chariot and the English longbow to your list. by 1000 BC, the stirrup had made speedy cavalry maneuvers possible; around 800 BC, the chariot changed the velocity with which battlefields moved; and the longbow ended the sway of the heavily armored warriors, as Henry V demonstrated at Agincourt in 1415. ]]>Jul 7th 2009 4:49PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/http://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/Jan 26th 2010 12:00AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/http://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/Jul 7th 2009 4:28PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/http://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/
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Thanks, I totally forgot about the stirrup! The longbow definitely crossed my mind, but I couldn't decide between the longbow or the crossbow and went with the Ferguson as my projectile weapon.

Chad Mumm]]>Jul 7th 2009 10:16PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/http://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/The price of intimidation is steep, used for security or for war.]]>Jul 8th 2009 12:31AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/http://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/Jul 14th 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/http://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/Aug 22nd 2009 8:10PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/http://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/
Just a little point, but muzzle-loading rifles (ie. with spiraled grooves in the barrel) were also possible. Notably the Baker rifle used by the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars.]]>Aug 26th 2009 1:32PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/http://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/
1) Guillotine - not a weapon
2) Little boy - just one example of a type of weapon
3) Greek fire - didn't change the world as we don't even know what it was and the Greeks lost even with it (to me weapons that changed the world are copied by the opponents and others)
4) Ferguson rifle - rifling may have changed the the world (and not just the battlefied) but that particular rifle didn't really do a lot
5) The V2 - the V1 certainly changed Britain a lot but the V2 came too late. Maybe some missiles today look more like the V1 and use liquid fuel but the V1 was the first to have an impact (or you could go back to Congreve or the Chinese for rockets generally).

I can't imagine why this got thumbs up on Stumble so I'll try to fix that now.]]>Aug 28th 2009 12:52PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/http://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/Jan 25th 2010 11:59PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/http://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/Jan 25th 2010 6:25PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/http://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/Jan 25th 2010 9:11PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/http://www.switched.com/2009/07/07/5-weapons-that-changed-the-world/1. It was not a fission bomb, it just used the energy of spliting the atom, later there was a formed that used energy from spliting atoms to fuse two Hydrogen Ions. If we found out how to cause a chain fusing of rondom compunds the power would be awsome, stats, a single fusiing of hydrogen ions can power pitsburg for a month, however we do not no how to harnes it in a contrlolled environment with out using millions of dollars is in weapon grad plutonium.

2. Its not that the bomb killed so many people, its how effective it was. The fire bombings of Tokyo killed just as many people, with one difference, they used more than 600 planes, and for all Japan knew we could destroy every single one of their cities with one plane.

3 I'll give you that the weapons race was pretty world changing, however, the real reason they dropped the bomb was because if they did go through the ground attack, the causualities were estimated at over one million for the United states alone. It also allowed Japan to become the flourishing country it is now, the United states would lose one million, but Japan would loose twice as many, they didn't give, the won or died(if they could still fight back, they didn't know how much the Nukes actualy cost). this actualy reduced casualities on Japanese side

also all this info is from sources, I had to write a paper on the Atomic Bombings]]>Jan 25th 2010 11:45PM