From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Sep 01 2004 - 21:00:17 PDT
At 11:34 PM -0400 9/1/04, m35products wrote:
>The first (military) tanks resembled (liquid) tanks, and were called tanks
>to confuse the enemy spies who might have been watching as the tanks were
>developed. The name stuck. I believe that the first ones to be developed
>were in the UK, but I may be corn-fused on that point.
That'd be Correct. The British are the Makers of
one of many fine innovations of Warfare. Angled
Landing decks on carriers, the Carrier itself,
Tanks and a few things I'm probably forgetting.
Little Willie and Mother were the first tanks.
Little Willie: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWwillie.htm
Mother (the Mother of all tanks).
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWmother.htm
William Beach Thomas, With the British at the Somme (1917)
"They (the tanks) looked like blind
creatures emerging from the primeval slime. To
watch one crawling round a battered wood in the
half-light was to think of "the Jabberwock with
eyes of flame" who "came whiffling through the
tulgey wood and burbled as it came."
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