When your invention is so good that everyone starts copying it

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• Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Printing press, the original copy mania

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Also, smokeless powder made armies go from brightly colored uniforms that could be seen through clouds of gunsmoke to dull uniforms that blended with the terrain.

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  • OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Lol and the irony is France at the start of WW1 got slaughtered wearing bright red and blue uniforms. Pretty sure they lost something like 30,000 soldiers in one day

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    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      https://bookshop.org/p/books/flashman-at-the-charge-george-macdonald-fraser/af0e8f98b48522e2

      Can a slave trader, rapist, murderer who fights fixed duels be all bad?

      General Sir Harry Flashman is the worst human who ever lived, but he is honest in his diaries. In this this book he dishes the dirt on Lord Cardigan and explains how an ardent coward ended up in the middle of the biggest military disaster any country was ever proud of.

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