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  2. Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont - Wikipedia

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    The hospital had a mobile X-ray car manufactured by Austins and purchased for £300. Installation of the X-ray equipment was assisted by Marie Curie and included water and electrical sources independent of the rest of the facility. The X-ray car was highly coveted; other hospitals in the area occasionally used it and the British military ...

  3. Category : Lists of military units and formations of World War I

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    Category: Lists of military units and formations of World War I. 1 language. ... Mobile view ...

  4. List of formations of the United States Army during World War I

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    Organic Units Commanding General 1st Infantry Brigade: 1st Division: May 24, 1917 16th Infantry Regiment 18th Infantry Regiment 2nd Machine Gun Battalion Brig. Gen. Omar Bundy Brig Gen. George B. Duncan Brig. Gen. John L. Hines Brig. Gen. Frank Parker Col. Hjalmar Erickson 2nd Infantry Brigade: 1st Division: May 24, 1917 26th Infantry Regiment

  5. H. Lyman Saÿen - Wikipedia

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    Preferring to field an expeditionary force of regular army units, President Wilson declined to deploy Roosevelt's army and it was subsequently disbanded. Although Saÿen's plan for mobile military x-ray units was never realized, mobile x-ray units were designed and deployed by England, France and the United States. [9]

  6. Aerial reconnaissance in World War I - Wikipedia

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    The French Army developed procedures for getting prints into the hands of field commanders quickly. In Britain, then lagging far behind in aviation, the reconnaissance pioneer F.C.V. Laws established the first heavier-than-air photography unit at Farnborough in 1913, using a Farman fitted with a Watson camera. In stark contrast with the French ...

  7. List of combat vehicles of World War I - Wikipedia

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    Tanks came about as means to break the stalemate of trench warfare.They were developed to break through barbed wire and destroy enemy machine gun posts. The British and the French were the major users of tanks during the war; tanks were a lower priority for Germany as it assumed a defensive strategy.

  8. X-ray machine - Wikipedia

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    An X-ray generator generally contains an X-ray tube to produce the X-rays. Possibly, radioisotopes can also be used to generate X-rays. [1]An X-ray tube is a simple vacuum tube that contains a cathode, which directs a stream of electrons into a vacuum, and an anode, which collects the electrons and is made of tungsten to evacuate the heat generated by the collision.

  9. 103rd Aero Squadron - Wikipedia

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    One of those pilots, Paul F. Baer, became the first ace of an American unit in World War I. [n 1] [3] The 103rd Aero Squadron was the first U.S. pursuit squadron in action during World War I and had the longest combat service, from 19 February to 11 November 1918.