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Rockets and Missiles: The Life Story of a Technology - Softcover

Van Riper, A. Bowdoin Van

 
9780801887925: Rockets and Missiles: The Life Story of a Technology
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0801887925 ISBN 13: 9780801887925
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Beginning with World War II, missiles transformed the art of war. For the first time, cities of warring nations were vulnerable to sudden, unannounced, long-distance attacks. At the same time, rockets made possible one of the great triumphs of the modern age—the exploration of space. Beginning with the origins of rocketry in medieval and early modern Asia, Rockets and Missiles traces the history of the technology that led to both the great fear of global warfare and the great excitement of the Space Age.

This volume focuses on rocketry in late-twentieth-century Western Europe, Russia, and the United States, as well as the spread of rocket technology to East Asia and the Middle East. It covers the full history of rocket technology—including how rockets improved in performance, reliability, and versatility and how they affected everyday life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

A. Bowdoin Van Riper, an adjunct professor at Southern Polytechnic State University, is the author of Looking Up: Aviation and the Popular Imagination; Science in Popular Culture: A Reference Guide; and Men among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory.

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Verlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0801887925
ISBN 13 
9780801887925
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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