This article will discuss
the discovery of a Tank which is an armored vehicle that has a cannon or
missile as an armament and uses an iron chain treadmill as its wheels.
Tanks are armored vehicles
used by the military or most widely used when the war is bulletproof. Today's
tanks are becoming more sophisticated, many new technologies are being applied
into tanks like weapons systems and other military technologies.
Sir Ernest Swinton
Tanks also have a powerful
destructive force when used in war in addition to having strong perlingdungan
against bullets or bombs. inventor of the tank vehicle Sir Ernest Swinton.
Major General Sri Ernest
Swinton Dunlop, born in Bangalore, India, on October 21, 1868. Swinton is a
British Army officer and tank inventor.
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Swinton was assigned to
influence the development and use of tanks during the First World War by the
British. besides, he is famous for the term often spoken, that there is no
human soil.
The discovery of an
armored vehicle or Tank began when he got the idea of making a tank on
October 19, 1914, while he was driving his car in France. Previously, he got a
letter from one of his friends named Hugh Merriot, he is an Engineer who lives
in South Africa.
In the letter Merriot
asked Swinton to come to South Africa to discuss the possibility of a
steel-coated tractor very useful in the war.
Benjamin Holt of Holt
Manufacturing Company purchased a track chain patent, a track-type tractor from
Richard Hornsby & Sons in 1914. During World War I, the British war office
ordered the Holt tractor to be used in the war.
Major Swinton was sent to
France as an army war correspondent, where he saw a Holt tractor used to carry
their needs in war.
In 1914 Swinton was
promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, he appointed Lord kitchener as war
correspondent on the western border. Swinton began to worry that the infantry
were killed in gunfire, so he ordered to fight the trench method.
When he saw the Holt
tractor, he had the idea of making a tank. So he immediately wrote a memo
explaining the advantages of the tank, the memo addressed to Maurice Tipu, the
Secretary of War Council in London.
After receiving the memo,
Maurice was very interested in Swinton's idea. Subsequently the memo was sent
by Winston Churchill, the Minister of the Navy. Churchill along with Lloyd
supported the idea and formed the Landships Committee to design and model the
tank vehicle.
First Model Tank
The navy was deployed to
issue a steel-coated car squad to protect the naval airfield in Belgium, to
test a tank vehicle that emerged as a proliferation of armored cars.
After the test is
successful, the prototype tank is produced directly complete with weapons to
fight. This prototype tank vehicle began to be used in the war in September
1916.
In 1918, Swinton retired
and served as the Controller of the Department of Civil Aviation Information at
the Ministry of Water until 1921. In 1922, he served as director of the Citroen
company.
In 1925, he returned to
Swinton academics and became Professor of Military History at Oxford
University. In 1934, he became Colonel Commander of the Royal Tank Corps.
Swinton died on January 15, 1951. Thus the explanation of the history of the
tank's inventor - Sir Ernest Swinton. Hope can inspire us all.
It is complete nonsense to claim that Swinton invented the tank. He did no such thing. Winston Churchill set up a committee to supervise the creation of armoured vehicles, and the first British tanks were designed by Walter Wilson and William Tritton. Swinton failed to interest anyone in his vague idea, and he didn't design or draw anything at all. He didn't even know the prototypes has been built until he was told about them 6 months later. The only reason Swinton is mistakenly credited with inventing the tank is that he spent the rest of his life claiming to have done so. What's more: the French built tanks at the same time, without Swinton's knowledge.
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