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Book A Letter from Captain Blakely  H P   Royal Artillery  to the Secretary of State for War  Claiming the Original Invention of an Indispensable Feature of the Armstrong Gun

Download or read book A Letter from Captain Blakely H P Royal Artillery to the Secretary of State for War Claiming the Original Invention of an Indispensable Feature of the Armstrong Gun written by Theophilus Alexander Blakely and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Letter from Captain Blakely      to the Secretary of State for War  Claiming the Original Invention of an Indispensable Feature of the Armstrong Gun

Download or read book A Letter from Captain Blakely to the Secretary of State for War Claiming the Original Invention of an Indispensable Feature of the Armstrong Gun written by Theophilus Alexander Blakely and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A letter     to the secretary of State for war  claiming the original invention of an indispensable feature of the Armstrong gun

Download or read book A letter to the secretary of State for war claiming the original invention of an indispensable feature of the Armstrong gun written by Theophilus Alexander Blakely and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Letter to the Secretary of State for War  Claiming the Original Invention of an Indispensible Feature of the Armstrong Gun  with an Authentic Description of that Weapon

Download or read book A Letter to the Secretary of State for War Claiming the Original Invention of an Indispensible Feature of the Armstrong Gun with an Authentic Description of that Weapon written by T. A. Blakely and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Literary Gazette

Download or read book The Literary Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arms and the State

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marshall J. Bastable
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-05-15
  • ISBN : 1351957252
  • Pages : 457 pages

Download or read book Arms and the State written by Marshall J. Bastable and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arms and the State is a history of Britain's first and foremost modern armaments company, the Armstrong Whitworth Company, from its origins in 1854 to 1914. It focuses on the role of Sir William G. Armstrong, an engineer and entrepreneur who transformed his modest mechanical engineering business into a vast industrial enterprise which invented, developed, manufactured and sold heavy guns and warships throughout the world. Arms and the State reconstructs the global arms trade as it follows Armstrong's companies selling the latest weapons to both sides in the American Civil War, Egypt, Turkey and Italy in the 1860s, to China, Chile and Japan in the 1870s and 1880s, and became Britain's leading armaments company in the age of the naval arms races that preceded the First World War. In so doing, it discusses varied topics such as the social and political nature of technological innovation, the quality of Britain's late-Victorian entrepreneurs, and the impact of armaments on British politics, defence policies, the international arms trade and imperialism. Arms and the State situates the history of the company in its technological, political and international contexts, with particular attention given to the role of British Parliamentary politics and the inner workings of the War Office and Admiralty bureaucracies. The central narrative is Armstrong's role in the militarization of technology in the 1850s, the commercialization of the armaments trade on a global scale in the 1860s and 1870s, and the emergence of the British military-industrial state in the 1880s and 1890s. Arms and the State provides a history of the people, the technology and the business of the Arms trade. It is a fascinating story of the domestic politics, the foreign policy and strategic calculations, the manipulation of the press and the bureaucratic intrigues that lay behind the invention, production and proliferation of the first weapons of mass destruction.

Book Piracy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adrian Johns
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2010-01-15
  • ISBN : 0226401200
  • Pages : 636 pages

Download or read book Piracy written by Adrian Johns and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry lost $2.3 billion in revenue to piracy online. But here Adrian Johns shows that piracy has a much longer and more vital history than we have realized—one that has been largely forgotten and is little understood. Piracy explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first. Brimming with broader implications for today’s debates over open access, fair use, free culture, and the like, Johns’s book ultimately argues that piracy has always stood at the center of our attempts to reconcile creativity and commerce—and that piracy has been an engine of social, technological, and intellectual innovations as often as it has been their adversary. From Cervantes to Sonny Bono, from Maria Callas to Microsoft, from Grub Street to Google, no chapter in the story of piracy evades Johns’s graceful analysis in what will be the definitive history of the subject for years to come.

Book The Practical Mechanic s Journal

Download or read book The Practical Mechanic s Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates

Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nineteenth Century Short title Catalogue  phase 1  1816 1870

Download or read book Nineteenth Century Short title Catalogue phase 1 1816 1870 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Byzantium  1867

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  • Author : Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1867
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 842 pages

Download or read book A Byzantium 1867 written by Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The 71F Advantage

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  • Author : National Defense University Press
  • Publisher : NDU Press
  • Release : 2010-09
  • ISBN : 1907521658
  • Pages : 529 pages

Download or read book The 71F Advantage written by National Defense University Press and published by NDU Press. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a foreword by Major General David A. Rubenstein. From the editor: "71F, or "71 Foxtrot," is the AOC (area of concentration) code assigned by the U.S. Army to the specialty of Research Psychology. Qualifying as an Army research psychologist requires, first of all, a Ph.D. from a research (not clinical) intensive graduate psychology program. Due to their advanced education, research psychologists receive a direct commission as Army officers in the Medical Service Corps at the rank of captain. In terms of numbers, the 71F AOC is a small one, with only 25 to 30 officers serving in any given year. However, the 71F impact is much bigger than this small cadre suggests. Army research psychologists apply their extensive training and expertise in the science of psychology and social behavior toward understanding, preserving, and enhancing the health, well being, morale, and performance of Soldiers and military families. As is clear throughout the pages of this book, they do this in many ways and in many areas, but always with a scientific approach. This is the 71F advantage: applying the science of psychology to understand the human dimension, and developing programs, policies, and products to benefit the person in military operations. This book grew out of the April 2008 biennial conference of U.S. Army Research Psychologists, held in Bethesda, Maryland. This meeting was to be my last as Consultant to the Surgeon General for Research Psychology, and I thought it would be a good idea to publish proceedings, which had not been done before. As Consultant, I'd often wished for such a document to help explain to people what it is that Army Research Psychologists "do for a living." In addition to our core group of 71Fs, at the Bethesda 2008 meeting we had several brand-new members, and a number of distinguished retirees, the "grey-beards" of the 71F clan. Together with longtime 71F colleagues Ross Pastel and Mark Vaitkus, I also saw an unusual opportunity to capture some of the history of the Army Research Psychology specialty while providing a representative sample of current 71F research and activities. It seemed to us especially important to do this at a time when the operational demands on the Army and the total force were reaching unprecedented levels, with no sign of easing, and with the Army in turn relying more heavily on research psychology to inform its programs for protecting the health, well being, and performance of Soldiers and their families."

Book Origin of Washington Geographic Names

Download or read book Origin of Washington Geographic Names written by Edmond Stephen Meany and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chronicles of the Cape Fear River  1660 1916

Download or read book Chronicles of the Cape Fear River 1660 1916 written by James Sprunt and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Last Chapter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ernie Pyle
  • Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
  • Release : 2015-11-06
  • ISBN : 1786254662
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Last Chapter written by Ernie Pyle and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told,” wrote Harry Truman. “He deserves the gratitude of all his countrymen.” THIS is the final book of Ernie Pyle’s war reporting. After Africa, Italy, and D-Day on the European continent, Pyle took it the hard way again. There was still the Pacific war to win, and where the fighting was Ernie had to go, soul-sick though he was with the thousands of scenes of death and destruction he had already witnessed. He was attached to the Navy early in 1945. In the Marianas first and then living with the boys who flew the B-29s over the Japanese homeland, Pyle was experiencing a side of the war that was new to him. Next he joined an aircraft carrier on the invasion of Okinawa. He made the landing with the Marines and saw Okinawa secured. Then his luck ran out. A Japanese bullet killed Ernie Pyle on April 17th, 1945 on Ie Shima, and Americans lost their greatest and best-loved correspondent. Millions mourned the going of this modest man who wrote of the war with all honesty and no pretensions, and whose writings will stand as one of the most vital records of the struggle. LAST CHAPTER is a brief, brave little book to complete that record permanently. There is a sixteen-page picture section and an index of names and places.

Book History of Newton County  Mississippi

Download or read book History of Newton County Mississippi written by Alfred John Brown and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Wayne County  New York

Download or read book History of Wayne County New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: