Other technologies and applied sciences

A meticulously researched account of how the US Navy evolved between the War of 1812 and the Civil War The 1830s is an overlooked period in American naval history and is usually overshadowed by the more dramatic War of 1812 and the Civil War.

In the Persian Gulf War, Americans of all races fought in integrated units under the leadership of the first African-American to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

A challenge to the prevailing idea that Confederate ironclads were inherently defective The development of steam propulsion machinery in warships during the nineteenth century, in conjunction with iron armor and shell guns, resulted in a technological revolution in the world's navies.

Attempts to answer difficult questions about battle tactics employed by the United States Army Weapons improved rapidly after the Civil War, raising difficult questions about the battle tactics employed by the United States Army.

In the past decade, the United States has rapidly deployed militarized drones in theaters of war for surveillance as well as targeted killing.

Engineering the battlefield-one armored advance at a time.

For much of the nation's history, the participation of blacks in the armed forces was ap-proximately in line with their proportion in the total population.

The recent development of easy-to-use sources and detectors of terahertz radiation has enabled growth in applications of terahertz (Thz) imaging and sensing.

The history of Cleveland-Cliffs, a company that played a key role in iron mining development in the Lake Superior region.

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The tank revolutionized the battlefield in World War II.

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The one thing for which this century will be remembered 500 years from now was: This was the century when we began the exploration of space.

A fascinating behind-the-scenes history of a vital component of the space program, this book goes inside the suit that made it possible for human beings to set foot on the Moon.

Neil Armstrong in a space suit on the moon remains an iconic representation of America's technological ingenuity.

The year is 2007, the fiftieth anniversary of the Space Age.

It's happening nowplans are being formulated under the coordination of NASA to launch a permanent, manned space station by the year 1990.

Same Colt!

Intrigued by hints of ';the bigger man' behind the war personality of Gen.

For modelers and WWIl enthusiasts, a collection of scale drawings of German combat vehicles.

Die Entwicklung Autonomer Systeme in der Pflege sollte als partizipative, soziotechnische Innovation betrachtet und vorangetrieben werden.

Technical artist and military historian George Bradford has been producing detailed drawings of armored fighting vehicles for over thirty years.

Filled with fine-scale drawings of Russian armored fighting vehicles including:*; T-34 Model 1940*; BA-64B Model 1943 Light Armored Car*; BT-7 (Model 1937 Fast Tank)*; SU-76i (on Pz.

A top-selling reference now updated and revised to include new and changed terminology of the U.

A military historian analyzes the ingenious WWII tanks known as Hobart's Funnies, detailing their development and their role in the D-Day campaign.

Technical artist and military historian George Bradford has been producing detailed drawings of armored fighting vehicles for over thirty years.

Filled with 1:72-scale drawings of armored vehicles from Germany, Japan, Italy, Hungary, and Romania.

Filled with 1:72-scale drawings of armored vehicles from the U.

While, over the last 30 years, the global economy's center of gravity has shifted to East Asia, the region has remained surprisingly free of interstate military conflict.

Intervention in armed conflicts is full of riddles that await attention from scholars and policymakers.

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Unraveling the Mysteries of the Night Sky.

An estimated 3,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel currently volunteer to serve in the Israeli military, a force fighting other Palestinians just miles away in occupied territories.

- Provides an overview of Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs), from fundamentals to applications- Evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of particular applications, methods and techniques- Contains new chapters on sensing, femtosecond laser writing of FBGs and poling of glass and optical fibers- Includes a special version of the photonic simulator PicWave(tm), allowing the reader to make live simulations of many of the example devices presented in the book.

Optical coatings, including mirrors, anti-reflection coatings, beam splitters, and filters, are an integral part of most modern optical systems.

Optical Fiber Telecommunications V (A&B) is the fifth in a series that has chronicled the progress in the research and development of lightwave communications since the early 1970s.

For years, fiber optics was the future.

Semiconductor lasers have important applications in numerous fields, including engineering, biology, chemistry and medicine.

Steele and his comrades expected war to be a glorious adventure, their personal intersection with events of historic importance.

Although the RMA has been the subject of much discussion in the United States for over a decade, it has not received the same level of analytic attention in Canada and other NATO and allied countries.

Focusing on these and other thematic issues, Bohdan Kordan assesses the policy and practice of civilian internment in Canada during the Great War and provides a clear yet critical statement about the complex and troubling nature of this experience.