Automobiles had already been in production in several countries for at least a decade before 1914 and Henry Ford had already revolutionized industrial production methods in that industry that were immediately incorporated into the wartime production efforts on both sides of the Atlantic in connection with arms and munitions production. The rapid development of aviation technology during the war also contributed to the perception that the modern era began with World War I, but the basic technology had also been invented a decade earlier and would have continued to evolve on its own, although less rapidly than in wartime.
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By 1914, the telegraph had already shortened the time that news took to travel across the globe from weeks to minutes, and telephones were already in existence, although not yet widely available to most. Photography was invented a half century earlier and by 1914, moving pictures recorded permanent records of modern society, including...
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