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Show Geniut Died in Poverty Frledrich Wilhelm Goebel, recof-nlzed recof-nlzed in Germany as the Inventor of the military tank, died without collecting col-lecting the 10,000,000 marks he demanded de-manded as compensation from the ministry of defense for his Invention. Inven-tion. His widow was left penniless. penni-less. Goebel, old and poor at his death, first exhibited his tank In 1913, when it climbed a 50 per cent grade amid the applause of high Imperial Im-perial officers. He maintained to the last that failure of the kaiser's officers to recognize the Importance of the tank caused Germany's defeat de-feat In the var. The tank was one of a loo-s list of Goebel's Inventions, Inven-tions, ranging over the fields of aviation, shipping, electricity and warfare. |