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Robida’s imagined war machines anticipated by 1883 art
A historic note cites A Robida’s 1883 La Caricature drawings as predicting later WWI weapons. It highlights his tanks on tracks, armored cars, submarines aided by torpedo boats, Zeppelins, and chemical warfare concepts with protective masks, all sketched decades before their reality.
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Europe
A. Robida
Robida
la Cariture
Somme
Jules Verne
Verne
Germany
France
H. Bergldi
Pit
Vélu
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