WW2 Inventions

  • START of timeline

  • Tank

    the first tank Prototype
  • Enigma machine

    The Enigma machine is a cipher device developed to protect commercial, diplomatic, and military communication.
  • Atomic bomb

    A discovery by nuclear physicists in a laboratory in Berlin, Germany, in 1938 made the first atomic bomb possible, When an atom of radioactive material splits into lighter atoms, causing a sudden, powerful release of energy.
  • Helicopters

    The helicopter was the first to incorporate a single main rotor and tail rotor design.
  • Start of the war

  • Bombe

    March 1940,the first Bombe, a code-breaking machine, was installed at Bletchley Park; This complex machine consisted of approximately 100 rotating drums, 10 miles of wire, and about 1 million soldered connections.
  • Boucing bomb

    A bouncing bomb is a bomb designed to bounce to avoid obstacles such as torpedo nets, by bouncing over them
  • M3 submachine gun

    The M3 is an American . 45-caliber submachine gun adopted for U.S. Army service
  • V-2 rocket

    The V-2 was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile.
  • Colossus Computer

    Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers
  • Proximity fuzes

    The proximity fuze was developed through British and American cooperation in the early stages of World War II. The advantage was that the gunners could fire shells to explode over troop positions, showering them with deadly shell fragments.
  • End of war

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