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Scientific research and instrumentation are crucial for military action today but they have not always been so. This collection investigates 500 years of the relationship between warfare, research, and instruments - both physical and intellectual - to understand this interaction. With U.S., English...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Walton, Steven A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Brill, 2005.
Colección:History of warfare ; v. 28.
Temas:
Geschichte 1600-2000.
Military research > History.
Military art and science > Technological innovations.
Scientific apparatus and instruments > History.
Military art and science > Instruments.
Recherche militaire > Histoire.
Art et science militaires > Innovations.
Appareils et instruments scientifiques > Histoire.
Art et science militaires > Instruments.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
Military art and science > Technological innovations
Military research
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Militärtechnik
Militärische Forschung
Technische Innovation
Wapens (krijgskunde)
Techniek.
Onderzoek.
Wapenindustrie.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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)
  • Chapter Five Telegraphing the Weather: Military Meteorology, Strategy, and 'Homeland Security' on the American Frontier in the 1870's (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)
  • 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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