From: Fred Martin (mung@in-touch.net)
Date: Thu Sep 02 2004 - 09:27:04 PDT
I think they invented RADAR back about 1940 as I recall from a History
channel program. Seems we took the principal and made something useful
out of it...the microwave oven. Fred Martin
Ryan Gill wrote:
> 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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