"The Land Ironclads" is a short story by British writer H. G. Wells, which originally appeared in the December 1903 issue of the Strand Magazine. It features tank-like "land ironclads", 80-to-100-foot
1904 illustration of the short story, showing huge ironclad land vessels, equipped with pedrail wheels
A landship is a large vehicle that travels on land. Its name distinguishes it from those which travel on or through other mediums such as conventional ships, airships, and spaceships.
The Land Ironclads
…inventor J. W. Dunne, who spoke of "big fat pedrail machines" in a letter to Wells. Dunne later also influenced Wells's novel The War in the Air (1908). Landship The Land Leviathan – a novel by Michael Moorcock…
Schematic for the T-42 Soviet tank
German troops posing on a captured T-35
The Helepolis was the largest of the siege towers.
Model of Dora, sister railway gun of Schwerer Gustav.