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John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, chapter 15 (search)
XIV.
some inventions and devices of the war.
That necessity is the mother of invention nothing can more clearly and fully demonstrate than war. I will devote this chapter to presenting some facts from the last war which illustrate this maxim.
As soon as the tocsin of war had sounded, and men were summoned to take the field, a demand was
A torpedo. at once made, on both sides of Mason and Dixon's line, for a new class of materials — the materials of war, for which there had been no demand of consequence for nearly fifty years. The arms, such as they were, had been largely sent South before the outbreak.
But they were somewhat old-fashioned, and, now that there was a demand for new arms, inventive genius was stimulated to produce better ones.
It always has been true, and always will be, that the manufactured products for which there is an extensive demand are the articles which invention will improve upon until they arrive as near perfection as it is possible for the work of