Year 9 History : Australians at war (WW1): Weapons of war

Ebullient presenter Tony Robinson and a team of experts travel to a famous World War 1 battlefield in northern France to search for a top secret tunnel and a 60-foot flame thrower lost for almost a century. Built for use during the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, the bloodiest clash of WW1, this giant weapon of terror fired a blast of flaming oil over 100 yards. With historian Peter Barton, and archaeologist Tony Pollard, Robinson hopes to recover the machine and, with the help of British Royal Engineers, build a working replica and get the fire breathing mechanical dragon to roar once more.

The trench detectives visit the site of the first successful tank battle in WW1 revealing how these British metal beasts were forged in a fascinating story of machine and man.
Under top secrecy in England during WWI, a team of women were employed to help create mobile water storage devices for the Middle East. They were actually building 'landships' but their nickname for these large steel machines, 'tank', has stuck.