What was some of the technology used in the Spanish American War?

The Spanish-American War was not a particularly advanced war in
terms of its technology. There were no airplanes and no machine guns. It was not a war that was
won or lost because of technology.

On the American side, there were
only two weapons that can really be seen as technologically advanced in any way. The first of
these was the Model 1896 Krag-Jorgenson Rifle. This rifle was advanced because of the fact that
it used smokeless powder (new to the US) and because it had a five shot magazine instead of being
a single shot rifle. Most American units, however, did not have this weapon because it was quite
new. Second, the US used the 1895 model of the Gatling Gun. This was not a machine gun, but it
was a weapon that could fire very rapidly. The rate of fire of this weapon was considerable and
it did help the US win the war.