WWI invention and innovations included the variable pitch propeller, developed by Wallace Rupert Turnbull, the gas mask, invented by Dr. Cluny MacPherson of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, the "Nissen Hut", invented by Peter Norman Nissen in 1916, the Curtiss Canada bomber and the ill-starred Ross rifle. Attempts were made to convert the latter to what became known as the Huot automatic rifle but the war ended before it could be introduced. these are some examples.
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New inventions changed warfare during World War 1 by creating new weapons and creating more casualties. Some of the inventions during World War 1 were tanks, infantry rifles, and machine guns.
The Poison gas and the airlifts
The aircraft carrier was a new invention in World War I. The use of deadly gases was also a new invention in World War I.
the atom bomb and the pop rivet.
The Qubecqois in world war one