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Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius who Invented It
de Julia Keller
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- ISBN 10
- 0670018945
- ISBN 13
- 9780670018949
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Signed and Inscribed by Julia Keller on the title page. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket in excellent condition. Not price clipped. Text is in excellent condition.
Sinopsis
A provocative look at the life and times of the man who created the original weapon of mass destruction Drawing on her investigative and literary talents, Julia Keller offers a riveting account of the invention of the world's first working machine gun. Through her portrait of its misunderstood creator, Richard Jordan Gatling-who naively hoped that the overwhelming effectiveness of a multiple-firing weapon would save lives by decreasing the size of armies and reducing the number of soldiers needed to fight-Keller draws profound parallels to the scientists who would unleash America's atomic arsenal half a century later. The Gatling gun, in its combination of ingenuity, idealism, and destructive power, perfectly exemplifies the paradox of America's rise in the nineteenth century to a world superpower.
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- Librería
- Jerome Yanoff
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- JY206210
- Título
- Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel
- Autor
- Julia Keller
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Excellent
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0670018945
- ISBN 13
- 9780670018949
- Editorial
- Viking Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2008
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