Technology Takes Command
The photograph on the left shows H.M.S. Dreadnought, the speedy, heavy-gunned
battleship that altered the basts of naval competition between Britain and Germany
when it was launched in 1906. Insets show views from bow and stern. But sub
marines already constituted a threat to even the most heavily armed and armored
battleships, as the artist’s drawing (upper right) suggests. Note the periscope, in
vented only three years before. Airplanes were also developing rapidly as shown in the
1906 photograph of a French aviator (lower right) who seems to be flying backward
in his push-prop plane.
Illustrated London News, 1906, pp. 548 (20 Oct.), 301 (1 Sept.), and 841 (8 Dec.)
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