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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Spam Nylon and rayon: synthetic alternatives to silk Anti-biotic/anti-bacterial drugs: penicillin and sulfa Modular construction: rapid ship building by assembling parts made elsewhere!. "Jerry" can: portable gasoline container Analog computers guided missiles portable radios small disposable batteriesWww@QuestionHome@Com Sonar: the British pioneered a device called Asdic; a similar American device was called Sonar for sound navigation and ranging!. The use of sound waves in medicine proceeded slowly, but really took off in the late 1960's!. It remains an invaluable instrument for medical imaging!. Atomic energy: although the bomb was a terrible thing, it stimulated atomic research in many aspects, so we have atomic energy and nuclear medicine!. In the latter, radioisotopes are injected, ingested or placed in the human body for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes!. Radioisotopes are also used for diagnosis in the medical laboratory!.Www@QuestionHome@Com 1!. the nuclear bomb!. It shaped warfare for the next seventy years, and still affects us today!. 2!. Irregular warfare!. It showed (in Poland and in France) that a determined resistance could successfully fight against a very powerful occupier!. 3!. Tanks!. More and more advanced tanks were developed (by just about everyone besides Germany)!. Along with various other technology (high-altitude bombers, dive-bombers), shaped warfare forever!. [I know tanks were developed in WWI, but they were advanced here!.]Www@QuestionHome@Com radar atomic energy!.before they built a bomb, they built a nuclear reactor under the the squash courts at the University of Chicago!.!.!.!. and number 1: the computer!.originally developed for artillery calculations!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Start with jet and rocket engines, although both had earlier origins they were refined during the war!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Napalm, the atomic bomb, synthetic rubber, hydrogen peroxide, radar and electronic computers!.Www@QuestionHome@Com M&MS!!!!!!! created so the war guys's chocolate wouldnt melt!!i kid you not!Www@QuestionHome@Com |