War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor
by David A. Mindell
Explores the story of how mariners-- fighting "blindly" below the waterline-- lived and coped with the metal monster they called the "iron coffin." The author shows how the iron warship emerged as an idea and became practicable, how building it drew upon and forced changes in contemporary manufacturing technology, and how the vessel captured the nineteenth-century American popular and literary imaginations. He shows how technology changes not only the tools but also the very experience of combat, generating effects that are still felt today in the era of "smart bombs" and pushbutton wars.
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War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor
March 24, 2000, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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0801862507 9780801862502
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War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor
March 24, 2000, The Johns Hopkins University Press
Hardcover
in English
0801862493 9780801862496
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"About an hour's train ride south of London, one can visit today the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the centuries-old home of the Royal Navy, now an impressive museum."
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