armory pubns e 275 e 036 (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Reynier Press, Naples, FL. 1999. 230 pgs. Illustrated with maps, graphs, tables, photographs, illustrations, appendix, references, glossary, and an index. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Dr. Baldwin, a member of an elite team of scientists working on ordnance projects with the little-known "Section T" (Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution) has provided again (after The Deadly Fuze of 1980) another essential personal account of the development of one of the lesser known advances of World War II, variously known as the Proximity Fuze, the VT (Variable Time) Fuze, the Pozit Fuze, or, as Gen. G. Patton called it, the "funny fuze" that helped win the Battle of the Bulge. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.