How Did People Who Build Tanks During Ww1

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Tanks During World War One Tanks have been around for a long time, dating way back to world war one. Leonardo da Vinci was the first person to come up with the idea of building tanks, way back in the fifteenth century. The British were the first one’s to produce the tanks on September 6, 1915. The British first developed the tanks in hopes of helping them with the trench warfare in world war one. Tanks were armed vehicles with conveyor-belt-like tracks over the wheels that were able to break through enemy lines, and go through strenuous territory. The metal armour on the tanks protected them from machine-gun fire as well as shrapnel, pieces of metal that spray in all directions …show more content…

They would often break down and get stuck in mud of no man’s land, so they were not very effective during world war one. The tanks had a huge impact on the war because it allowed soldiers to go to no man’s land and fight without getting badly injured, it allowed soldiers to travel through difficult territory and shoot the enemy from the inside of the vehicle. Tanks also led to peacetime improvements in bulldozers and other vehicles that run on tracks and not on wheels. This technology was also used to construct new vehicles such as snowmobiles. Airplanes During World War One Airplanes had been a big part of world war one, being used for numerous things. Two American brothers named Wilbur and Orville Wright developed the first ever airplane on December 17, 1903. An airplane is a powered, fixed - wing aircraft that is driven by a jet engine or a propeller. The airplanes were first used to gather reconnaissance. They were used to gather information about what the enemy was doing. Pilots would fly over enemy trenches to take pictures. Early airplanes carried no weapons, guns, or bombs. Towards the end of the war, airplane technology

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