Parker (1996) argues that the full-rigged ship was one of the greatest technological advances of the century and permanently transformed naval warfare.

The first people to imagine how digital technology would transform warfare were a cadre of senior military intellectuals in the Soviet Union, during the nineteen-seventies.

Cannon also transformed naval warfare: the Royal Navy, in particular, took advantage of their firepower.

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Their introduction thus had a varying impact in many areas, but nevertheless the horse transformed African warfare in significant ways.

The potato and the musket transformed Māori agriculture and warfare, although the resulting Musket Wars died out once the tribal imbalance of arms had been rectified.

Cannon also transformed naval warfare in the early modern period, as European navies took advantage of their firepower.

But it was the technological developments that took place from 1750 onwards, increasing on an exponential curve, that really transformed modern warfare and spread across much of the globe.

Intellectually, Gray Harbor had already known it could be done that quickly with the new guns and carriages, but actually seeing it drove home the enormity of the changes about to transform naval warfare.

From the 4th century BC on, new types of oared warships appeared in the Mediterranean Sea, superseding the trireme and transforming naval warfare.