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Mr. Gatling's terrible marvel: The gun that changed everything and the misunderstood genius who invented it
por Julia Keller
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- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670018945
- ISBN 13
- 9780670018949
- Livreiro
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
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Sinopse
A provocative look at the life and times of the man who created the original weapon of mass destruction Drawing on her investigative and literary talents, Julia Keller offers a riveting account of the invention of the world's first working machine gun. Through her portrait of its misunderstood creator, Richard Jordan Gatling-who naively hoped that the overwhelming effectiveness of a multiple-firing weapon would save lives by decreasing the size of armies and reducing the number of soldiers needed to fight-Keller draws profound parallels to the scientists who would unleash America's atomic arsenal half a century later. The Gatling gun, in its combination of ingenuity, idealism, and destructive power, perfectly exemplifies the paradox of America's rise in the nineteenth century to a world superpower.
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- Livreiro
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
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- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- RB15279
- Título
- Mr. Gatling's terrible marvel: The gun that changed everything and the misunderstood genius who invented it
- Autor
- Julia Keller
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Very Good Condition
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Very Good
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670018945
- ISBN 13
- 9780670018949
- Editorial
- Viking
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 2008
- Palavras-chave
- BZDB1 Gatling, Richard Jordan, 1818-1903, Gatling guns, Inventors United States Biography, Gatling, James Henry, 1816-1879 Biography & Autobiography; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 0670018945 EAN: 9780670018949 Julia Keller Mr. Gatling's terrible
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