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”, https://historyofideasblog.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).
