Technology

Home to the rifle used by the British Army throughout WW1

The little known home of the first tanks

Developing items to help rehabilitate servicemen who had lost a hand or arm

Rachel Parsons was the director of her father’s factory during WW1

Vickers engineering has dominated underwater technology for a hundred years

The prototype tractors that based the design of the tank

The grate that led to a lucrative enterprise

G2 - John Logie Baird, who invented television, created the Baird Undersock

The Marconi Transmitting Station played a crucial role during WW1, transmitting messages.

DD1 1DA - In 1918 Julian the Tank came to Dundee to raise money for the war effort.

School children were asked to collect conkers to create a vital war weapon

Clydach’s nickel refinery, a key supplier of an ingredient for tanks and battleships.

The bus operator who invented ‘gas bags’ to keep his vehicles on the road

The Vickers machine gun, a key component of the British Army, fired 500 rounds per min.

How superpowers used technology to gain the upper handby spying on each other

British defences had the upper hand at the Battle of Jutland

The airship base used for patrolling and training parachutists to descend from airships

Hawkcraig in Fife was the location of the hydrophonetraining station, HMS Tarlair.

The top secret mission to invent a military tank was carried out in a Lincoln hotel

World famous whistle manufacturers to signal danger during the war

John Scott Haldane, the Oxford scientist behind the invention of the gas mask

A terracotta company that produced acid resistant containers to store war explosives

The training ground for the new tank unit that changed modern warfare

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