War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor

Mindell, Professor David A.

ISBN 10: 0801862493 / ISBN 13: 9780801862496

Editore: The Johns Hopkins University Pre, 2000

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• Titolo: War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor
• Editore: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0801862493
• ISBN 13: 9780801862496
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: Very Good

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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