Instrumental in War : : Science, Research, and Instruments Between Knowledge and the World / / edited by Steven Walton.
Scientific research and instrumentation are crucial for military action today but they have not always been so. This collection investigates 500 years of the relationship between warfare, research, and instruments - both physical and intellectual - to understand this interaction. With U.S., English...
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| Superior document: | History of Warfare ; 28 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2005. |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of Warfare ;
28. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Volume Contributions
- List of Contributors
- Introduction, Steven A. Walton
- Chapter One, Mathematical Instruments and the Creation of the Military Gentleman, Steven A. Walton
- Chapter Two, Surveying and the Cromwellian Reconquest of Ireland, William A. Lynch
- Chapter Three, Like Clockwork? Clausewitzian Friction and the Scientific Siege in the Age of Vauban, Jamel Ostwald
- Chapter Four, Calorimeters and Crushers: The Development of Instruments for Measuring the Behavior of Military Powder, Seymour H. Mauskopf
- Chapter Five, Telegraphing the Weather: Military Meteorology, Strategy, and 'Homeland Security' on the American Frontier in the 1870s, James R. Fleming
- Chapter Six, Remnants of Testing at the Sandy Hook Proving Grounds, Sandy Hook, New Jersey, Gerard P. Scharfenberger
- Chapter Seven, From Measuring Progress to Technological Innovation: The Prewar Annapolis Engineering Experiment Station, William M. McBride
- Chapter Eight, Dr. Veblen at Aberdeen: Mathematics, Military Applications and Mass Production, David Alan Grier
- Chapter Nine, National Naval Laboratories and the Development of Fire Control Gyrocompasses in Interwar Britain and France, Sebastien Soubiran
- Chapter Ten, Washouts: Electroencephalography, epilepsy & emotions in the selection of American aviators during the Second World War, Kenton Kroker
- Chapter Eleven, A Matter of Gravity: Military Support for Gravimetry during the Cold War, Deborah J. Warner
- Chapter Twelve, Physics Between War and Peace, Peter Galison
- Index.