Technology and Society

Assignment 2
(Vidisha 2015189)

Electronics, communications, and intelligence

Before and during the World War II, the Germans

had used codes to communicate to each other so as to
avoid letting the Allies know their plans. However, the
code breakers of Britain’s Bletchley Park were able to
crack the secrets of the Germans. This has lead to the
field of coding and ethical hacking after the war.
Today there is a huge increase in the number of
coders and hackers for the development of
electronics and communications.
The Americans, during the war, had also used
electronic computers and other devices to calculate
the angle, distances, battlefield equations, and more.
The soldiers carried small digital computers in their
pockets to the battlefield. Now, these machines are
being used even by the common man after many
improvements were made to it. These are generally
used for simple and complex mathematical
calculations. Radars and sonars were also used during
the war to find and attack the enemy. Today these are
used in ships and aircrafts to avoid colliding with land
or other ships/aircrafts.
Vehicles

When the Germans had started preparing for war

against the Allies, they had secretly built superior
tanks which were much better and unbeatable than
what was with the Allies (even though there were
severe restrictions upon Germany constructing
vehicles for military purposes. Some of the
betterments in the German tanks were the light
weight, replacement of the fuel tank, the speed of the
tank, improvements in the radio systems, and more.
Some of these changes have been made in today’s
daily transportations.
The cannons and machine guns that were used in
the war by the Germans were comparatively light in
weight and therefore easier to carry for the soldiers
when been taken to the battlefield. This was done so
to let transporting of soldiers be quicker by the
reduction in weight. Nowadays many items that are to
be carried through long distances are made as light as
possible, and the modern vehicles are made strong
enough so that it does not slow down even if there is
some large weight in it.