ASCI 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Greek Fire, Biological Warfare, Industrial Revolution
6 Dec 2016
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To take resources from neighbours more effectively. War is the natural condition of the human race. First world war placed significant role in the democracy of the world. Science has its fingerprints all over the first world wat. 20th century everything because exaggerated because of industrial revolution. Gives us a global connectivity as a by product. With aviation became the bombing of civilizations. Almost have achieved the god like power of destroying the world we live in. M. curie with scientific inquiry, searching for energy. Late 1890s around wwi, they observed pitch blend released large amounts of uranium releasing radioactivity, decay of it is slow and releases nrg slowly. Ernst rutherford; releases that contained with uranium is a huge amount of energy. If you could release the energy quickly, would create massive effect. Seen as a modern prometheus bringing a wonderful fire, but like prometheus brings problems. Prometheus brings fire to mankind: heinrich f ger (1817).
