{"id":6820,"date":"2012-11-15T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6820"},"modified":"2012-11-15T09:20:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T14:20:04","slug":"how-lincoln-helped-develop-modern-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/how-lincoln-helped-develop-modern-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"How Lincoln Helped Develop Modern Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/111512_0600_HowLincolnH1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"797\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the recent popularity of Abraham Lincoln \u2013 the American President who helped abolish slavery &#8211; Popular Science decided to delve into its archives and re-release a 1957 article that showed how Lincoln helped to create modern warfare. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lincoln oversaw the development of an &#8220;air force&#8221; in 1861. Balloons were used to put eyes in the sky and provide key intelligence during battles.<\/li>\n<li>Guns of the time required the soldier to stand up to reload \u2013 thus making them a target. Lincoln himself tested on the White House lawn a new type of gun that could be reloaded while lying on the ground \u2013 safe from enemy fire.<\/li>\n<li>Lincoln also tested rocket driven submarine torpedoes although the Navy was never able to figure out how to accurately control them.<\/li>\n<li>Ultimately Lincoln&#8217;s government was responsible for over 16,000 patents. The South only got 266. This, itself, might have won Lincoln the war.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more of the innovations that Lincoln saw developed over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/archive-viewer?id=XyEDAAAAMBAJ&amp;pg=130\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/archive-viewer?id=XyEDAAAAMBAJ&amp;pg=130\">Popular Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent popularity of Abraham Lincoln \u2013 the American President who helped abolish slavery &#8211; Popular Science decided to delve into its archives and re-release a 1957 article that showed how Lincoln helped to create modern warfare. Highlights include: Lincoln oversaw the development of an &#8220;air force&#8221; in 1861. Balloons were used to put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/111512_0600_HowLincolnH1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6827,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions\/6827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}