Riffling: Impact On Civilization

One of the biggest impacts on civilization started in Augsburg, Germany around fifteen hundred and twenty. When a man named August Kotter developed barrel rifling. Armorers to black smiths spared the knowledge as each civilization adapted the technology, modifying, and adapting it as it spread. For generation this technology changed as the knowledge continued to disseminate through the decades. Although riffling has been around since the fifteenth century, it was not commonplace. True rifling can be found from the mid to late sixteenth century, but was still not a trusted technology until the nineteenth century. Riffling technology goes back to bows and arrows. The concept of stabilizing a projectile flight by the rotational spin, gave the …show more content…
As it moves though the different time periods, and more importantly, adopting, modifying, the technology from civilization to civilization. We found in 4500 BC Oil lamps began to appear, and the next evolution in lamp technology came in 3000 BC, and this is when candles were known to be invented. Each generation adapting the lamp to its needs. 900 AD the kerosene lamp; 1780 improved the oil lamp efficiency to the draft flame. You can really see the lamp technology explode when each civilization combines other technology to achieve a new type of fire lamp. In 1841 Arc-lighting, 1854 incandescent lamp by passing an electric current through a carbonized bamboo filament, 1867 coated electric discharge tubes with luminescent materials, a process that was further developed in later fluorescent lamps. Now keep in mind this technology is adapting, and modifying as each person; each civilization modifies this …show more content…
Giving way to LED’s, led filaments, EL wire, and LumiLor paint. These adapting of light are ongoing, just as the study of velocity and air density came from barrel rifling. Technology comes from the interactions of many things before it can fill a need or want. An example of barrel rifling technology adaptation is the suppressor. A device attached to the barrel to reduce the amount of noise and visible muzzle flash generated by the ignition, velocity and air density of the projectile coming out of it. This is to hide or conceal the shooter’s position rendering him/her unseen, and able to use stealth to their aims. “Low observable technology uses many other technologies from light frequencies, magnetic, electromagnetic passive electronic countermeasures, which cover a range of techniques used by personnel, aircraft, ships, submarines, missiles and satellites to make them less visible; ideally invisible.” Stealth technology started with the Russia’s attempt to develop a stealth fighter called Sukhoi T-50 and started the invisibility battle of electromagnetic