
Tanks
Patented: History of Inventions
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The First World War
Churchill came up with the idea of a tank in 19 15. He wanted to get across no man's land without being destroyed by machine gun fire. The british were inventors of the tank from their point of view, says Aga. Tank was originally used as a means of getting around wire entanglements on the western front where people couldn't communicate well.
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