Format:
xix, 318 Seiten
ISBN:
9780253009890
,
9780253009845
,
0253009847
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 301-302. - Index
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Introduction: the key themes -- Early modern western warships: technologies of power projection and lethality -- Gunpowder technology, 1490-1800 -- Firepower, steamships, railways, telegraphs, radio: technologies of killing, logistics, command, and control, 1775-1945 -- The internal combustion engine: the technology of decentralized power, 1910-2013 -- A new sphere: air power, 1903-2013 -- Revolution, transformation, and the present -- Into the future -- Conclusions -- Postscript.
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Introduction: the key themesEarly modern western warships: technologies of power projection and lethality -- Gunpowder technology, 1490-1800 -- Firepower, steamships, railways, telegraphs, radio: technologies of killing, logistics, command, and control, 1775-1945 -- The internal combustion engine: the technology of decentralized power, 1910-2013 -- A new sphere: air power, 1903-2013 -- Revolution, transformation, and the present -- Into the future -- Conclusions -- Postscript.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253009890
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0253009898
Language:
English
Subjects:
Military Science
Keywords:
Militärtechnik
;
Kriegführung
;
Technische Innovation
;
Militärtechnik
;
Geschichte
;
Historische Darstellung
Author information:
Black, Jeremy 1955-
