Again, the internet that you use to question it again... and a few more examples.
Helicopters are military designs that were converted to civilian use. Even today,
most airplanes, and especially large aircraft, are the result of military design. In the case of large commercial airliners, nearly all of them were originally a military design that was converted to civilian use. In some cases, the original design was rejected by the military and in others it is possible to find the same model of plane serving in military use.
Titanium was a product of a 1949 US Department of Defense program to find a high-strength, lightweight, corrosion resistant structural metal. After five years of research at the US Army Material Command Materials and Mechanics Research Center, a process was discovered that could bring powdered titanium to a structural metal. Today, titanium is used in many structural applications and has many other uses such as pigment in paints
Weather Forecasting became critically important due to military aviation activities, especially during World Wars I and II. In the early days of weather forecasting, balloons were used to collect most atmospheric data. The US Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) and its predecessor organizations launched the first radio-equipped weather balloon in 1928 and developed most of the equipment now used by the National Weather Service as well as that used by the Department of Defense. The US Armys electronics laboratories
developed the first radar and Doppler Radar, which is now used to locate tornadoes for weather forecasting
Radar in and of itself was developed for military purposes and now finds uses in many communication applications. It is also used for cooking, in the form of the
microwave oven. During World War II, Fort Monmouth Army engineers in Africa first used microwave for communications purposes. Since that time, the equipment has become far more sophisticated and is now used by all common carriers of electronic communications.
It is also used for cellular telephone communication.Two-way radios used by policeman, firemen and civilians throughout the world were developed by the US Army Material Commands Fort Monmouth laboratories to facilitate battlefield communications. The original design was large and cumbersome and had to be carried about by backpack. As electronic technology advanced the units became more compact than the early handie-talkie.
The first uses of transistors and other solid state devices were nearly all military. The first companies to locate in Silicon Valley, California depended upon US military spending for their success. In fact, after World War II began defense industrial requirements transformed California from an agricultural state into an industrial state and the primary industry was munitions. One of the first companies to establish electronic component manufacturing facilities in the Silicon Valley was Fairchild Semiconductor. Fairchild Semiconductor obtained its name because Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, the giant defense contractor and aerospace company, bankrolled the company founded by Robert Noyce when it began mass-producing semiconductors in 1957.
It is interesting to note that the US military purchased at least 70% of all semiconductors manufactured in the Silicon Valley until the 1970s. The first consumer use of any transistors was in 1954, when Texas Instruments, one of the early manufacturers of transistors, developed a pocket radio model TR-1 as a joint venture with the Regency Division of an Indianapolis, Indiana electronics manufacturer named Industrial Development Engineering Associates, or IDEA. The TR-1 was sold under the Regency brand name.
The concrete pillbox or blockhouse of World War II, was thought to be obsolete because of the development of nuclear weapons during the same war. Also known as bunkers, they advanced and influenced the use of
steel reinforced concrete and the aesthetics of some civilian buildings. There were many variations of fortifications based upon their intended use.
Computers, On 5 June 1943, the US Army Ordnance Corps contracted with the University of Pennsylvanias Moore School of Electrical Engineering for research and development of an electronic numerical integrator and computer, known by its acronym, ENIAC. When developed, the ENIAC, although extremely slow by todays standards, was incredibly fast compared to the methods of that era.
Least not forget the Jeep, the Humvee either fun to drive
Yes, it was DARPAnet. The hyperlink protocals were developed by CERN - though , but not put to use until NCSA develped the Mosaic browser...the rest is history. Wait, all of that is history
I already gave him a quick link further up the discussion labeled
Internet Birth. Guess he never felt the need to read it since he is right and I am wrong.
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