Format:
Online-Ressource (xxiv, 414 p)
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ill
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9004142819
Series Statement:
History of warfare v. 28
Content:
Research and instrumentation in warfare since 1500 demonstrates the rise of the scientific military, the complicated interaction with military institutions, and details of how scientists and engineers developed artillery and explosives, surveying and geophysics, pilot testing and siegework, and the role of national and university laboratories
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Volume Contributions; List of Contributors; Introduction (Steven A. Walton); Chapter One Mathematical Instruments and the Creation of the Scientific Military Gentleman (Steven A. Walton); Chapter Two Surveying and the Cromwellian Reconquest of Ireland (William T. Lynch); Chapter Three Like Clockwork? Clausewitzian Friction and the Scientific Siege in the Age of Vauban (Jamel Ostwald); Chapter Four Calorimeters and Crushers: The Development of Instruments for Measuring the Behavior of Military Powder (Seymour H. Mauskopf)
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Chapter Five Telegraphing the Weather: Military Meteorology, Strategy, and 'Homeland Security' on the American Frontier in the 1870s (James R. Fleming)Chapter Six Remnants of Testing at the Sandy Hook Proving Grounds, Sandy Hook, New Jersey (Gerard P. Scharfenberger); Chapter Seven From Measuring Progress to Technological Innovation: The Prewar Annapolis Engineering Experiment Station (William M. McBride); Chapter Eight Dr. Veblen at Aberdeen: Mathematics, Military Applications and Mass Production (David Alan Grier)
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Chapter Nine National Naval Laboratories and the Development of Fire Control Gyrocompasses in Interwar Britain and France (Sébastien Soubiran)Chapter Ten Washouts: Electroencephalography, epilepsy and emotions in the selection of American aviators during the Second World War (Kenton Kroker); Chapter Eleven A Matter of Gravity: Military Support for Gravimetry during the Cold War (Deborah J. Warner); Chapter Twelve Physics Between War and Peace (1988 - with a new afterword) (Peter Galison); Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004142817
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Instrumental in War : Science, Research, and Instruments Between Knowledge and the World
Language:
English
