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A workable machine gun A steel ship A successful submarine A "snorkel" breathing device A wide-ranging corps of press correspondents in battle areas American conscription American bread lines American President assassinated Aerial reconnaissance Antiaircraft fire Army ambulance corps Blackouts and camouflage under aerial observation Cigarette tax Commissioned American Army chaplains Department of justice (Confederate) Electrically exploded bombs and torpedoes Fixed ammunition Field trenches on a grand scale Flame throwers Hospital ships Ironclad navies Land-mine fields Legal voting for servicemen Long-range rifles for general use Medal of Honor Military telegraph Military railroads Naval torpedoes Negro U.S. Army Officer (Major M.R. Delany) Organized medical and nursing corps Photography of battle Railroad artillery Repeating rifles Revolving gun turrets The bugle call, "Taps" The Income tax The wigwag signal code in battle The periscope, for trench warfare Telescopic sights for rifles Tobacco tax U.S. Navy Admiral U.S. Secret Service Withholding tax Wire entanglements Wide-scale use of anesthetics for wounded