Author: United States. Military Commission to EuropePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Report of Major Alfred Mordecai
Author: United States. Military Commission to EuropePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
... Military Commission to Europe in 1855 and 1856
Author: United States. Military Commission to EuropePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artillery
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Military Commission to Europe, in 1855 and 1856
Author: Alfred MordecaiPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282636838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Excerpt from Military Commission to Europe, in 1855 and 1856: Report of Major Alfred Mordecai, of the Ordnance Department Sm: I have the honor to present herewith a report of notes and observations on certain mili tary subjects, made during my visit to Europe, as a member of a military commission sent out in April, 1855, under the orders of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, your immediate predecessor in the War Department. The special reports of the commission, from time to time, show the course pursued in our journey, and the causes which prevented us from proceeding, as we wished to do, directly to the seat of war in the East. Those reports also show the courteous reception which we met with in most of the countries that we visited, and the facilities extended to us for accomplishing the object of our mission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society
Author: Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society
Author: American Jewish Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Rifles
Author: David WestwoodPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1851094067
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
From the musket to the M-16, rifles have played a major role in battle—sometimes tilting the scales in a pivotal moment of war. Yet all too often, poor decisions and ill-conceived "innovations" resulted in putting inappropriate weapons into ill-trained hands, with disastrous consequences. Ranging primarily from the late 18th century to the present, this richly illustrated volume tells the fascinating, sometimes problematic, history of rifled weapons and ammunition for military use. Battle to battle, readers will see how faster-loading, more accurate rifles changed the battlefield. Readers will also encounter many instances where decisionmakers chose to issue rifles ill-suited for the task at hand when better options were available. Author David Westwood has handled every weapon he describes, from muskets to breechloaders, from repeaters and bolt-action rifles to semiautomatics and self-loaders. His exhaustive research reveals new insights into both the successes and failures of rifled weapons. The result is a fresh look at a common weapon's most uncommon story.
Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
Book Description
Executive Documents
Author: OhioCatalogue of the American Library of the Late Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow
Author: Samuel Latham Mitchill BarlowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology
Author: Merritt Roe SmithPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801454409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Focusing on the day-to-day operations of the U.S. armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, from 1798 to 1861, this book shows what the "new technology" of mechanized production meant in terms of organization, management, and worker morale. A local study of much more than local significance, it highlights the major problems of technical innovation and social adaptation in antebellum America. Merritt Roe Smith describes how positions of authority at the armory were tied to a larger network of political and economic influence in the community; how these relationships, in turn, affected managerial behavior; and how local social conditions reinforced the reactions of decision makers. He also demonstrates how craft traditions and variant attitudes toward work vis-à-vis New England created an atmosphere in which the machine was held suspect and inventive activity was hampered. Of central importance is the author's analysis of the drastic differences between Harpers Ferry and its counterpart, the national armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, which played a pivotal role in the emergence of the new technology. The flow of technical information between the two armories, he shows, moved in one direction only— north to south. "In the end," Smith concludes, "the stamina of local culture is paramount in explaining why the Harpers Ferry armory never really flourished as a center of technological innovation." Pointing up the complexities of industrial change, this account of the Harpers Ferry experience challenges the commonly held view that Americans have always been eagerly receptive to new technological advances.