Historians consider the American Civil War to be the first truly technological war. Both the North and South worked secretly on a slew of inventions, such as ship-launched hydrogen balloons land mines.
World War I would help popularize wireless communications in the form of primitive radio transmitters; World War II’s merger of telephone engineering and computer engineering led to computer science and, eventually, the Internet. Of course, one of the most notorious of secret projects, the race to create the atomic bomb, still stirs controversy. However, the subsequent nuclear age led to huge innovations in satellite technology and space travel.
With modern innovations, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other high-tech hubs are secretly ushering the U.S. military into the twenty-first century.
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