Paths of fire : the gun and the world it made
2021
623.4 N153 2021
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Title
Paths of fire : the gun and the world it made
Variant Title
Gun and the world it made
Published
London : Reaktion Books in association with the Science Museum, 2021.
Description
253 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
623.4 N153 2021
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1198016213
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-244) and index.
L2022M79
"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 even consumer culture, have been moulded by the research that firearms have inspired. The new science of Galileo and Newton owed much to the Renaissance study of ballistics, which also brought on the more recent invention of mass production and ultimately kickstarted the contemporary field of artificial intelligence. This book follows the history of the gun and its wider linkages, ranging from the first cannons to modern gunnery, and to the yet-to-be-realized electrical futures of rays and beams"--Book jacket.
L2022M79
"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 even consumer culture, have been moulded by the research that firearms have inspired. The new science of Galileo and Newton owed much to the Renaissance study of ballistics, which also brought on the more recent invention of mass production and ultimately kickstarted the contemporary field of artificial intelligence. This book follows the history of the gun and its wider linkages, ranging from the first cannons to modern gunnery, and to the yet-to-be-realized electrical futures of rays and beams"--Book jacket.
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