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Iron Coffin: War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor
David A. Mindell
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Description for Iron Coffin: War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor
Paperback. This sensitive and enthralling history of the USS Monitor ensures that this fateful ship, and the men who served on it, will be remembered for generations to come. Series: Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Technology. Num Pages: 208 pages, 15, 11 black & white halftones, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HBWJ; PDX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
The USS Monitor famously battled the CSS Virginia (the armored and refitted USS Merrimack) at Hampton Roads in March 1862. This updated edition of David A. Mindell's classic account of the ironclad warships and the human dimension of modern warfare commemorates the 150th anniversary of this historic encounter. Mindell explores how mariners-fighting "blindly", below the waterline-lived in and coped with the metal monster they called the "iron coffin". He investigates how the ironclad technology, new to war in the nineteenth century, changed not only the tools but also the experience of combat and anticipated today's world of mechanized, pushbutton warfare. ... Read more
The USS Monitor famously battled the CSS Virginia (the armored and refitted USS Merrimack) at Hampton Roads in March 1862. This updated edition of David A. Mindell's classic account of the ironclad warships and the human dimension of modern warfare commemorates the 150th anniversary of this historic encounter. Mindell explores how mariners-fighting "blindly", below the waterline-lived in and coped with the metal monster they called the "iron coffin". He investigates how the ironclad technology, new to war in the nineteenth century, changed not only the tools but also the experience of combat and anticipated today's world of mechanized, pushbutton warfare. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Technology
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421405209
SKU
V9781421405209
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About David A. Mindell
David A. Mindell is Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is author or editor of several books, including Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight and Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics, the latter published by Johns Hopkins. ... Read more
Reviews for Iron Coffin: War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor
Mindell takes us back in time so we become 'witnesses' to the events surrounding the Union Navy's most famous ironclad. Pirates and Privateers The excellence of this volume confirms its continuing usefulness... Iron Coffin is a veritable gem of a book.
John F.M. McDermott IEEE Technology and Society Magazine Mindell's research is impeccable and supports his argument with considerable ... Read more
John F.M. McDermott IEEE Technology and Society Magazine Mindell's research is impeccable and supports his argument with considerable ... Read more