The British bodged together a couple of armored tractors in the Boer War. This may have inspired Winnie, who was a young aw-c-fer in that conflict.
I believe the first "modern" armed vehicle is credited as Maxim's War Car, with a tricycle suspension, and this was own at the Crystal Palace.

IIRC, the Tanks showed up rather late in the war, and the Germans had little time to react. There were German tanks, and there was even a monstrous Italian tank of nearly 100 tons

The Russians built the Lebedenko or Tsar which was wheeled, but rather unusual in it's design.


It's very likely there was very little "tank-on-tank" combat because there weren't very many tanks in WWI

Are you so sure about that? I would say that the Strategists of all Nations would see the effective use of early Tanks in the same spots and so they would (at least in my opinion) fight each other more often than you would suspect, even if that had nothing to do with modern Tank Warfare.

Excuse my English i just like to write tall and small like in my Motherlanguage

Originally Posted by Jeff Simmons

I am fortunate to live about an hour south of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (US) and they have an amazing collection of planes in their museum: everything from the first Wright flyer

What's the one in the Smithsonian?

George...I always assumed the one at Wright-Patterson was the actual Wright Flyer, because the Wright brothers were originally from Dayton, and there are a number of other artifacts there from their early experiments. However, you are probably right; I would imagine that the Smithsonian would have the real thing. I haven't been there since 1984 so it wasn't as fresh in my mind.