Yuri2356 wrote:
If the best and brightest of Britain's Scientists (Well, those who didn't get torched, gassed, or eaten) had no luck in figuring out how Martian machines work, what makes you think the criminals would have any luck?
Practically the same point I was about to make Yuri.
But if criminals did get their hands on Martian technology, they might not be able to do anything with it themselves, but I bet there would be plenty of foreign countries who would be pleased to buy such technology at any price.
These same countries may decide to cut out the middle-man and invade Britain while we are still staggering from the Martian invasion and grab what they could, Wells said at the end of the book.
CHAPTER NINE, WRECKAGE.
'All the shipping in the world seemed going Londonward in those days'
Those ships are probably full of invading foreign soldiers