Hemispherical Wheels

Title (Dublin Core): Hemispherical Wheels
Subject (Dublin Core): en Imagined technology & prototypes; en Tanks and Armored Vehicles
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): Hemispherical Wheels
extracted text (Extract Text): HEMISPHERICAL WHEELS are the innovation and the chief principle of the "Roller," a new amphibian combat vehicle designed by the Greek engineer Elie P. Aghnides, of New York City. Two big, ribbed, hemispherical front wheels and a spherical trailer wheel in the rear, all three empty and watertight, make the "Roller" agile on land and buoyant in water.
A substitute for the tank, it will carry high-powered armor-piercing guns. Intended for combat, reconnaissance, and sea-borne invasion, it is designed to have automobile speed, to negotiate difficult terrain as well as a tank, to swivel as easily as an office chair, and to right itself automatically if upset. In mud, sand, or snow it offers greater traction surface for less penetration; in water it will both float and propel itself.
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): World War II
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1943-09
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Science Monthly, v. 143, n. 3, 1943
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 105
Rights (Dublin Core): Public Domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core): Google Books
Archived by (Dublin Core): Alberto Bordignon

Item sets: Wars of Wonders; Meve - Memoriale della Grande Guerra di Montebelluna