How did WWI change the way we treat war injuries today?
World War One was fought on a scale that had never been experienced before. At the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, the main infantry weapon was the muzzle-loading musket, which fired up to four shots a minute. At the Battle of the Somme, just over a century later, machine gunners could fire off 600 rounds a minute. Faced with this challenge, new equipment and techniques were invented that, across four years of fighting, would end up saving thousands of lives.