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31 maj 2018 · On 31 May 1918, a small tank designed by a famous French car maker and a brilliant army officer saw its first action. Its inspired design lives on in today's tanks, 100 years later.
25 maj 2024 · From the tank and machine gun to Kotex and Kleenex, these innovations emerged from the pressing needs and challenges of the war. They changed the nature of warfare, but also had far-reaching effects on medicine, consumer goods, and society as a whole.
9 sie 2021 · An attempt by Holt to take credit for inventing the tank, by spreading his design before pictures of actual tanks were released to the public.
20 gru 2021 · In 1915 British Admiral Jacky Fisher wrote, “The war is going to be won by inventions.” New weapons, such as tanks, the zeppelin, poison gas, the airplane, the submarine, and the machine gun, increased casualties, and brought the war to civilian populations.
27 kwi 2014 · Fewer than a hundred A7Vs were ever produced, the only tanks manufactured by Germany that they used in the war. German troops did manage to capture and make use of a number of allied tanks,...
13 kwi 2014 · Cartier Tank watch owes its name to WW1 But until the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, men who needed to know the time and who had the money to afford a watch, kept it in their pocket on a...
6 kwi 2017 · Early in the war, aircraft were equipped with cameras for taking reconnaissance photographs. Pilots started arming themselves with handguns and rifles to shoot down enemy biplanes.
