War, Technology, and Experience Aboard the Uss Monitor - Rilegato

Mindell, David A.

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ISBN 10: 0801862493 ISBN 13: 9780801862496

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

Mindell extends the question about the role of humans in wars that are increasingly between machines backward to the US Civil War and the ironclad ship Monitor , which fought a celebrated four-hour battle against the Confederate Virginia in 1862. He explores how the technology emerged as an idea and became practicable, how building the ship drew on and forced changes in manufacturing, and how the vessel captured the 19th-century popular and literary imagination. He also considers how the sailors lived and coped with what they called their iron coffin as they fought blind from below the waterline. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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"War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor impressed me with its combination of skilled analysis, convincing argument, and elegant prose. This is simply a gem of a book, and promises to be one of those small classics in the history of technology that sets a new standard for how the core questions of the field are framed and addressed." -- Robert Friedel, University of Maryland

L'autore

David A. Mindell is Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. He has degrees in Electrical Engineering and Literature from Yale University and a Ph.D. in the History of Technology from MIT. His research interests include the history of military technology, the history of electronics and computing, and archaeology in the deep ocean. He is currently working on a history of feedback, control, and computing in the twentieth century, and on locating and imaging ancient shipwrecks and settlements in the deep regions of the Black Sea.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0801862493
• ISBN 13: 9780801862496
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 187
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile