Question about the books

In "The City of Gold and Lead" Will suggested to Fritz the idea of driving a Tripod as a means of escape from the City. Fritz pointed out that the Masters have a different physique (they are twice as tall as humans), which means the machinery would be too difficult to control. And a Tripod requires a crew of four. Assuming the Free Men had been able to contol some Tripods, the Masters in the third City would probably have been able to repel them because they're better equipped to handle the vehicles. The tentacles of a Tripod probably couldn't reach the dome anyway. The golden wall is more than three times the height of a Tripod.

Oh, you mean use the Tripods in the destroyed city in Germany to cross the ocean to destroy the final one? Well, I think the way the Tripods worked were more for Masters' use, not humans, so they couldn't even begin to figure it out. Also, I don't think the Tripods could travel out across the ocean, which is why they had three cities for the different areas of the world.

In the preface to the reprinting of the second book, the author explains how he came up with the physique of the masters. He basically admits, he got the idea of Tripods from reading War of the Worlds.

But in doing so, he realized, that a tripod isn't exactly a good way to move around, in the traditional earth bound sense of walking. Animals move in a straight line, and have 2, 4, 6, eight, or some kind of even numbered amount of legs.

locomotion based on three legs, would only been done in an efficient manner by also incorperating a spinning motion. It would have been natural for the masters to do this, but at the same time, way to disorienting for humans to do this.

In the short time the humans had, it would have been easier to re-create old technology, than to adapt and re-engineer the masters technology, due to the fundamental differences between the two species.

In the third book, it mentions how the masters never designed aircraft, because the conditions of their planet made it just not a viable technology. And even though on erath, it would have been possible, why use it, when what they had worked so well for them?

Same thing with the humans. Why try to master using tripods, when a non-tripod design worked better, for them.

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