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    Books The Military Response to the Martians (War of the Worlds).

    The walkers didn't use servos. One of the major technological differences between Martian and earth technology was quite explicit: Martians do not use the wheel or cogs. That's actually one of the things Wells hated about many of the artist renditions of Fighting Machines: they had legs that...
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    Books The Military Response to the Martians (War of the Worlds).

    That's making a major assumption that they COULD reverse engineer it. Even if we assume they could identify what things are made of, that doesn't mean they could replicate them. Give early 20th century scientists infinite money and a bunch of early 21st century tech and, well, there's no way...
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    Books The Military Response to the Martians (War of the Worlds).

    It is with heavy heart I must inform you that you are a mere 121 years late to the idea.
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