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Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel
por Julia Keller
- Usado
- Capa dura
- Assinado
- first
- Condição
- Like new
- ISBN 10
- 0670018945
- ISBN 13
- 9780670018949
- Livreiro
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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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
- Jerome Yanoff
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- JY206210
- Título
- Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel
- Autor
- Julia Keller
- Formato/Encadernação
- Excellent
- Estado do livro
- Novo
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0670018945
- ISBN 13
- 9780670018949
- Editorial
- Viking Press
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 2008
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