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Author : Patricia Jahns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Matthew Fontaine Maury & Joseph Henry written by Patricia Jahns and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Grady
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786478217
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Matthew Fontaine Maury, Father of Oceanography written by John Grady and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In becoming "a useful man" on the maritime stage, Matthew Fontaine Maury focused on the ills of a clique-ridden Navy, charted sea lanes and bested Great Britain's admiralty in securing the fastest, safest routes to India and Australia. He helped bind the Old and New worlds with the laying of the transatlantic cable, forcefully advocated Southern rights in a troubled union, and preached Manifest Destiny from the Arctic to Cape Horn. And he revolutionized warfare in perfecting electronically detonated mines. Maury's eagerness to go to the public on the questions of the day riled powerful men in business and politics, and the U.S., Confederate and Royal navies. He more than once ran afoul of Jefferson Davis and Stephen R. Mallory, secretary of the Confederate States Navy. But through the political, social and scientific struggles of his time, Maury had his share of powerful allies, like President John Tyler.
Author : Frances Leigh Williams
Publisher : New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Matthew Fontaine Maury, Scientist of the Sea written by Frances Leigh Williams and published by New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Henry
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book PAPERS OF JOSEPH HENRY V8 written by Joseph Henry and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1999-01-17 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a fascinating view of an increasingly confident public figure who worked unstintingly to gain international acknowledgement of American scientific achievement but also popular support for research in a wide array of disciplines.
Author : Joseph Henry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Joseph Henry: January 1850-December 1853 : the Smithsonian years written by Joseph Henry and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David J. Kent
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149306388X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Lincoln: The Fire of Genius written by David J. Kent and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Lincoln had a lifelong fascination with science and technology, a fascination that would help institutionalize science, win the Civil War, and propel the nation into the modern age. Readers will learn through Lincoln: The Fire of Genius how science and technology gradually infiltrated Lincoln’s remarkable life and influenced his growing desire to improve the condition of all men. The book traces this progression from a simple farm boy to a president who changed the world. Counter to conventional wisdom, subsistence farming provides a considerable education in agronomic science, forest ecology, hydrology, and even a little civil engineering. Continuing through a lifetime of self-study, curiosity, and hard work, Lincoln became the only President with a patent, advocated for technological advancement as a legislator in Illinois and in Washington, and became the “go-to” western lawyer on technology, and patent cases during his legal career. During the Civil War, Lincoln drew upon his commitment to science and personally encouraged inventors while taking dramatic steps to institutionalize science via the Smithsonian Institution, create the National Academy of Sciences, and initiate the Department of Agriculture. Lincoln’s insistence on high-tech weaponry, balloon surveillance, strategic use of telegraphy, and railroad deployment positioned the North to achieve Union victory.
Author : Steven J. Dick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Sky with Ocean Joined written by Steven J. Dick and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James C Bradford
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612512607
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Captains of the Old Steam Navy written by James C Bradford and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback for the first time, this collection of biographical essays delves into the careers of thirteen colorful naval leaders who guided the U.S. Navy through four turbulent decades of transition. Interpretive in approach, each essay emphasizes facets of the officer's personality or aspects of his career that made lasting contributions to the navy.
Author : Chester G. Hearn
Publisher : International Marine Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Tracks in the Sea written by Chester G. Hearn and published by International Marine Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Norman E. Youngblood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313027498
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Development of Mine Warfare written by Norman E. Youngblood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) coordinated the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction. As of mid-2005, 145 states had signed the agreement. The ICBL's efforts were in large part a response to the careless use of landmines in the previous fifty years. The history of mine use in warfare, however, goes back much further than the World Wars of the 20th century and includes both land and sea use. This first comprehensive study traces the technical, tactical, and ethical developments of mine warfare, from ancient times to the present. Beginning with mine warfare's roots in ancient Assyria and China, Youngblood takes the reader through the centuries of debate about how these hidden weapons should be used. A look at 19th-century developments explores the intertwined development of land and sea mines and the inventors behind them, including Robert Fulton, Samuel Colt, and Immanuel Nobel, father of Alfred Nobel. Subsequent chapters examine the use of mines in the American Civil War, the Russo-Japanese War, both World Wars, and the battlefields of the Cold War, and chart key battles and technical innovations, such as the development of air-delivered munitions. Finally, the author addresses the ethical concerns raised by the careless mining, namely the impact on civilians and the difficulties of de-mining, and the treaties that regulate landmine use.
Author : Frances Leigh Williams
Publisher : New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Matthew Fontaine Maury, Scientist of the Sea written by Frances Leigh Williams and published by New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles M. Hubbard
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572330924
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Burden of Confederate Diplomacy written by Charles M. Hubbard and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thoroughly researched . . . [Hubbard's] interpretation is solid, well supported, and touches all of the major aspects of Confederate diplomacy."--American Historical Review "As the first examination of the topic since King Cotton Diplomacy (1931), this work deserves widespread attention. Hubbard offers a convincingly bleak portrayal of the limited skills and myopic vision of Rebel diplomacy at home and abroad."--Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Of the many factors that contributed to the South's loss of the Civil War, one of the most decisive was the failure of Southern diplomacy. In this penetrating work, Charles M. Hubbard reassesses the diplomatic efforts made by the Confederacy in its struggle to become an independent nation. Hubbard focuses both on the Confederacy's attempts to negotiate a peaceful separation from the Union and Southern diplomats' increasingly desperate pursuit of state recognition from the major European powers. Drawing on a large body of sources, Hubbard offers an important reinterpretation of the problems facing Confederate diplomats. He demonstrates how the strategies and objectives of the South's diplomatic program--themselves often poorly conceived--were then placed in the hands of inexperienced envoys who were ill-equipped to succeed in their roles as negotiators. The Author: Charles M. Hubbard is associate professor of history at Lincoln Memorial University and executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Museum in Harrogate, Tennessee.
Author : John Hudson Tiner
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1728268524
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (282 download)
Download or read book 100 Scientists Who Shaped World History written by John Hudson Tiner and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2000-05-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn all about the fascinating lives and tremendous impact of 100 extraordinary scientists from all over the world with this fact-filled biography collection for kids Educational and engaging, 100 Scientists Who Shaped World History features: Simple, easy-to-read text that has been freshly updated Illustrated portraits of each figure Fascinating facts about famous and lesser-known scientists A timeline, trivia questions, project ideas and more! From Pythagorus to Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur to Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin to Stephen Hawking and many more, readers will be introduced to the lives and accomplishments of the greatest scientists throughout history. Organized chronologically, 100 Scientists Who Shaped World History offers a look at the amazing discoveries and advancements made by these figures and shows how scientific contributions have helped guide humanity for thousands of years.
Author : Paul Alan Cimbala
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780823221950
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (219 download)
Download or read book An Uncommon Time written by Paul Alan Cimbala and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cimbala (history, Fordham U., New York) and Miller (history, Saint Joseph's U., Philadelphia) introduce a dozen contributions on the Civil War battlefront's effects on the Northern homefront. Authors (some from the Northern US) explore the war's impact on such areas as journalism, popular literature, bond drive-construction of patriotism, Republican ideology on race, women's growing sense of entitlement, the Smithsonian Institution, dissent, laws on the return of slaves to the South, and the Federal system. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Edward R. Hogan
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780934223935
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Of the Human Heart written by Edward R. Hogan and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Peirce was one of the principal contributors to nineteenth-century American science. He gained international prominence from his work on the perturbations of Neptune, and his Linear Associative Algebra was the first important mathematical research done by an American. He was a key figure in the professionalization of American science; and, as superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, he was an effective scientific administrator. Peirce also played an important role in the education of many American scientists, including Simon Newcomb, the most widely honored and recognized American scientist of the generation after Peirce, and Peirce's son. Charles Saunders. Peirce belonged to an impressive family of American intellectuals. The intellectual tradition in the family is apparent with Peirce's feminist mother, and his scholarly father, who wrote a history of Harvard College. The tradition finds its climax in Peirce's son, Charles, perhaps the most exceptional mind the United States has yet produced.
Author : Warren F. Spencer
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817308612
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Confederate Navy in Europe written by Warren F. Spencer and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A major contribution to Civil War and naval history". -- Journal of Southern History
Author : National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Inventions and Scientific Discoveries written by National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
