David A Mindell

Broschiertes Buch

Iron Coffin

War, Technology, and Experience Aboard the USS Monitor

Beschreibung

This sensitive and enthralling history of the USS Monitor ensures that this fateful ship, and the men who served on it, will be remembered for generations to come.

Autor

David A. Mindell is Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is author or editor of several books, including Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight and Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics, the latter published by Johns Hopkins. The first edition of Iron Coffin, titled War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor, won the Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology in 2001.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• 2nd Updated edition
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9781421405209
• ISBN-10: 1421405202
• Artikelnr.: 34981018