JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
I've written earlier in this blog on fabulosity in land battleships though not so much about the real thing.
- For example, in "Movable Maginot: a Feast of Morbidly Techno-Gigantism", http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2012/12/moveable-maginot-a-feast-of-morbidly-techno-gigantism.html, as well as others:
[Also "moveable maginot" is a phrase that does not show up online, except for here.]
Moving away from the mega-behemoth of imagination, let's have a look at this loco-tank as it was contrived and constructed in 1916, with the photograph appearing in Popular Mechanics Magazine for November, 1916 (midway through WWI).
In the same volume, in the October issue, we find this tracto-tank, a more-modest attempt at a differentiated tank constructed on the frame of tractor:
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