Paths of Fire: The Gun and the World It Made - Hardcover

Nahum, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1789143977 ISBN 13: 9781789143973

Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

If you squeeze the trigger of a Kalashnikov a bullet is kicked up the barrel by an archaic chemical explosion that would have been quite familiar to Oliver Cromwell or General Custer.
The gun, antique, yet contemporary, still dominates the world. Political and international structures and consumer culture have been moulded by research that firearms have provoked; the new science of Galileo and Newton owed much to the Renaissance study of ballistics as well as more recent mass production and artificial intelligence. This book follows the history of the gun from the first cannons, to modern gunnery, to Star Wars and the yet to be realised electrical futures of rays and beams.

Published in association with the Science Museum, London.

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Andrew Nahum is a curator and historian. He has written extensively on the history of technology and his books include Frank Whittle: The Invention of the Jet, Fifty Cars that Changed the World and Issigonis and the Mini.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Reaktion Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1789143977
• ISBN 13: 9781789143973
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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