Firearms the life story of a technology
With graphic prints, photographs, a timeline, and a glossary, this engaging and insightful technography sheds light on one of the most important inventions in the history of the human race
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Baltimore, MD
The Johns Hopkins University Press
2004
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| Series: | Greenwood technographies
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Table of Contents:
- Ancestors : the ancient origins of firearms technology
- Childhood : the rise and development of matchlock firearms
- Between a rock and a hard place : the rise of the flintlock
- Rifling : new twist on an old idea
- Old metal heads : the self-contained metallic cartridge
- Technological takeoff : the supremacy of rapid fire
- Apogee and equilibrium : automation
- Conclusion : the limits of lethality?