hearing about them from Diplock in person on a previous journalistic assignment. According to one biographer, Wells initially had the idea for land ironclads using "pedrails" from an inventor J. W. Dunne, who spoke of "big fat pedrail machines" in a letter to Wells. Dunne later also influenced Wells's novel The War in the Air (1908). See also Landship The Land Leviathan References External links "The Land Ironclads" (reproduced online) H.G. Wells's Land Ironclad paper model Science fiction short stories Short stories by H. G. Wells 1903 short stories Fiction about tanks Works originally published in The Strand Magazine