non-toxic by-products of warfare is technological advance. Before the 1914-18 war, battles often began when everyone arrived, not to a fixed timetable. It was hardly surprising. For a start, it’s quite a challenge to organise an advance at 09:00 sharp when your watch measures accuracy to a few minutes rather than to the second. Only when artillery and infantry needed to work in coordination did the difference between tenpast and ten-to the hour suddenly mean being late in a very literal sense.
Air of accuracy
Nov 23, 2022
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