Fighting machine (The War of the Worlds) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-07

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00:00:52 1 Novel
00:08:58 2 Adaptations
00:09:08 2.1 iThe War of the Worlds/i (1953 film)
00:13:21 2.2 Television series
00:17:36 2.3 iWar of the Worlds/i (2005 film)
00:24:55 2.4 iH.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds/i (2005 film)
00:27:15 2.4.1 iWar of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave/i (2008 film)
00:28:32 2.5 iJeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds/i
00:30:12 2.6 Parallel and sequel novels
00:30:53 2.7 iThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen/i
00:32:38 3 Influence on later fiction
00:37:26 4 See also



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The Fighting Machine (also known as "Tripod") is one of the fictional machines used by the Martians in H.G. Wells' 1898 classic science fiction novel The War of the Worlds. It is a fast-moving, three-legged walker, reported to be 100 feet tall, with multiple whip-like tentacles used for grasping, and two lethal weapons: the heat-ray and a gun-like tube used for discharging canisters of a poisonous chemical black smoke that kills humans and animals. It is the primary machine the Martians use when they invade Earth, along with the handling machine, the flying machine, and the embankment machine.