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| 1905 |
| | The first German submarine, or U-boat, is constructed in a programme to catch up with Britain and France in this area | |
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| 1906 |
| | Britain launches HMS Dreadnought, the first of a massive new class of battleship | |
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| 1906 |
| | In direct response to Britain's new Dreadnought, Germany increases the production of battleships | |
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| 1911 |
| | US inventor Isaac Newton Lewis patents a lighter version of the machine gun | |
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| 1913 |
| | The Vickers Fighting Biplane No 1 is unveiled in London at the Olympia Aero Show as the world's first purpose-built fighter plane | |
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| 1915 |
| | Winston Churchill is a firm supporter of a new invention, the tank, encouraging its initial development while still at the Admiralty | |
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| 1915 April 1 |
| | The French aviator Roland Garros fires a machine gun through the propeller in his fighter plane, using metal plates to deflect any bullets that hit the propeller | |
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| 1915 June |
| | Dutch aircraft designer Anton Fokker, working for the Germans, vastly improves the Roland Garros technique for firing machine guns through the propellers of fighter planes | |
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| c. 1915 July |
| | German fighter planes are armed with new machine guns synchronized to fire between the revolving propeller blades | |
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| 1915 |
| | from December - the 225-horsepower Eagle, the first of many Rolls-Royce aero-engines, is used to power British bombers | |
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