Easily cleaned cutlery for the soldier in the field, easily sterilized tools for the surgeon in the field hospital
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Synthetic rubber
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Sanitary napkins/pads
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Tea bags
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Blood banks
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Ultrasound
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Industrial fertilizers/Haber process
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Named after Fritz Haber this method of crop growth and management feeds a large percentage of the Earth's population. Haber won the Nobel Prize for this. He was also responsible for developing Germany's poison gas program during the war.
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Plastic surgery
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Facial reconstruction was different before WWI. So many men were disfigured that many volunteered to try this then experimental surgery just to try and regain a sense of normality.