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Explosives
- History with a Bang
Af: G I Brown
Engelsk Paperback
Explosives
- History with a Bang
Af: G I Brown
Engelsk Paperback

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This entertaining and informative book tells the dramatic tale of explosives from gunpowder to the H-bomb. Laying the emphasis on the lives of the people involved, on the diverse uses of explosives and on their social and historical impact, the author relates a story of remarkable international and human endeavour. Many of those involved - Roger Bacon, Guy Fawkes, Alfred Nobel, Robert Oppenheimer - are famed worldwide; others, such as C F Schonbein, William Bickford, Sir Frederick Abel and Charles E Munroe, though less well-known, also played critical roles. Alongside their achievements, this book highlights the uses and impact of explosives in both war and terrorism, and in civil engineering, quarrying, mining, demolition, fireworks manufacture and shooting for sport. In many cases explosives are seen to have had a significant historical impact as, for example, in the early use of gunpowder in the American Civil War, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and the worldwide opening up of canals and railways.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780752456966
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0752456962
Udg. Dato:
28 jul 2010
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
125mm
Højde:
189mm
Forlag:
The History Press Ltd
Oplagsdato:
28 jul 2010
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