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Technological Change
If war is the mother of invention then its
offspring is technological change. The
Carron Ironworks’ canon borer of the late
th
18 century revolutionised the
production of canons for warefare but its
by-product was the adaption to production
of more efficient cylinders for steam power and the emerging
steam engine and railways.
