Who was the inventor of the military tank?
Answer Keith: The proper nomenclature it Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AFV), Tank was the code word used by the brits to disguise what they were actually building during WWI. There were numerous inventors that contributed to the end result here is a short history of the development lifted from: http://www.sachem.edu/schools/seneca/socialstudies/guttman/per7/weapons/Tank%20D… Like so many inventions it is hard to point to one development that was “it”, rather is was the accumulation of a number of firsts that when put together led to the end result. Just a note, the T-34 tank, perportedly the best all around tank of WWII, was a direct development of the Christie chassie, which just happened to be invented and marketed by an American. It was rejected by the U.S. Army but embraced by the Soviets for it’s simplicity and ruggedness. The tracks could even be removed and the tank driven on the road like an 16 wheeled truck. Hindsight is 20-20 they say. Richard Edgeworth invented the Caterpilla
