The tank

[jastaV]

Tanks are a common presence on modern battlefield, an can be even easy to see girls going around blasting them!
But where that name -TANK- come from?



First tank prototipes where designed in the Reinassence Times by Leonardo da Vinci.
Who else?
Guess, soon or later we'll discover the was the first to formulate Coke too!



First operative tanks entered the battlefields in 1917, as a made in britain achivement.
W. Churchill, as minister for the British War Effort, was behind the project. To keep the secret over the new weapon he decided to designate it, in all papers, as Water-Carrier..... so the tank was to figure out as a logistic support to carry water supply to the front line.
Unfortunately the acrominous, W.C. sounded a bit "offensive" for the secret weapon: Water Closh?
The masking name was then changed to Water-Tank! Soon later TANK was the commonly used term for it!

[arsan]

Very interesting!
Never thought about it before!

[Nikel]

Italians were the first to use the planes as a weapon, Leonardo (di Caprio? ) was who created the first tank....


What will be the next thing, that Rome was the capital of and empire?

[jastaV]

Italians were the first to use the planes as a weapon, Leonardo (di Caprio? ) was who created the first tank....


What will be the next thing, that Rome was the capital of and empire?

Well, we can add behind highst achivement in Spanish history was an Italian too: Cristoforo Colombo!

.... then going to France, what's as regard BUONAPARTE origins?

[Nikel]

Sorry, thanks to my post this is going a bit offtopic

It is still not clear which was the country of origin of Colon, italian (genovese), spanish (catalan, valencian, mallorquín) or even french. DNA studies have only proved so far that he is buried in Seville, though this is not accepted by Santo Domingo

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12871458/


More studies will follow comparing DNA in Seville tomb with samples from people with the same or similar surname in those countries, and we will see

[soundoff]

Ah but poor old Leonardo's idea had one quite important design flaw. The front and rear wheels were geared to move in opposite directions.

[jastaV]

Sorry, thanks to my post this is going a bit offtopic

It is still not clear which was the country of origin of Colon, italian (genovese), spanish (catalan, valencian, mallorquín) or even french. DNA studies have only proved so far that he is buried in Seville, though this is not accepted by Santo Domingo

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12871458/


More studies will follow comparing DNA in Seville tomb with samples from people with the same or similar surname in those countries, and we will see

Going on off topics......
Colombo could be Spanish or French in the same mesure as Mickey Mouce could be chinese!

[Nikel]

OK, let's come back to the topic


I think that this ancient weapon fills the criteria to be considered a "tank": armored, mobile and with fire power, the helepolis! No doubt Leonardo had a classical education

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http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/9645/Ogre/Helepolis.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helepolis