Tatra, India - All Terrain Vehicles for Indian Armed Forces
Civilian technologies that were invented for military.
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2. • When you rely on the GPS app on that Android
phone to keep yourself from getting lost, you’re
using the same Global Positioning System
satellites set up by the U.S.
• Department of Defense in the early 1990s.
• At President Clinton’s behest, the system
became available to civilian users in 1996.
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4. • Dippin’ Dots, anyone? The technology
that’s now used to make freeze-dried
ice cream was first used widely during
World War II as a way of preserving
medical supplies that otherwise
required refrigeration.
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6. • EpiPens, the auto-injecting syringes
that allow you to give yourself a quick
shot of epinephrine to stave off an
allergic reaction, sprung from a similar
device designed to protect soldiers
from nerve agents and chemical
weapons.
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8. • British soldiers began sporting cargo
pants in the 1930s because they
offered a convenient way to carry vital
military gear like ammunition.
American troops adopted them just a
few years later, and the general public
began to wear them in the 1990s.
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10. • In 1942, duct tape was invented for
the military as a way to seal
ammunition cases so that water
couldn’t get in. Soldiers during
WWII quickly realized that it worked
well for fixing army gear, too.
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12. •You know those canisters
you use in order to get
gasoline to put in your
lawnmower? They were
initially developed for the
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14. • The Jeep has come a long way since it was
first manufactured for American troops to use
on reconnaissance missions in WWII.
• Now celebrating its 70th anniversary, some
new models of the world’s oldest SUV come
equipped with luxuries such as leather-
wrapped steering wheels, DVD players, and
touchscreen media consoles.
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16. • ENIAC, the first electronic computer
that was capable of being programmed
to serve many different purposes, was
designed for the U.S. military during
WWII. The army paid for the computer
to be built so they could use it in their
Ballistic Research Laboratory.
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18. • In 1945, an American scientist realized
accidentally that the radar transmitters
used by the U.S. Army throughout WWII
actually released enough heat—in the form
of “microwaves”—that they could cook
food.
• This technology was used to construct the
