Author: Alfred Elton Van VogtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Weapon Makers
Author: Alfred Elton Van VogtThe Gun Makers of Birmingham, 1660-1960
Author: Joseph McKennaPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476683786
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Tracing the history and development of gun-making in Birmingham, England--for many years a center of the world's firearms industry--this book covers innovations in design and manufacture of both military and sporting arms from 1660 through 1960. The city is perhaps best known for mass-producing some of the most battle-tested weapons in history, including the Brown Bess musket, the Webley revolver and the Lee-Enfield rifle. Yet Birmingham's gun-makers have carried on a centuries-long tradition of crafting high quality hand-made sporting guns.
The Weapon Shops of Isher
Author: Alfred Elton Van VogtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Future life
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Arms Makers of Pennsylvania
Author: James B. WhiskerPublisher: Selinsgrove : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A survey, with hundreds of illustrations, of the arms making industry in Pennsylvania from its beginnings until about 1900. it focuses on the Pennsylvania long (Kentucky) rifle, and identifies the primary schools of gun making and major technological developments. Illustrated.
Use of Weapons
Author: Iain M. BanksPublisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316068799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a lost cause. But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past. Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, Use of Weapons is a masterpiece of science fiction. The Culture Series Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata
German Swords And Sword Makers
Author: Richard H. BezdekPublisher: Paladin Press
ISBN: 9781581600575
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
German swordsmiths have always been famous for their production of high-quality swords, making the swords themselves highly sought by collectors. Equally important to the knowledgeable collector are the histories of the men who designed, manufactured and sold these prized weapons. German Swords and Sword Makers presents the most information ever published on German sword and edged weapon makers from the Middle Ages to the present. It includes photos and illustrations of swords from Prussia, Bavaria, Wurttemberg, Saxony and Austria; more than 300 illustrations of German sword maker blade marks spanning five centuries; rare sketches and photos of German sword makers and their factories; a listing of German sword makers who exported swords to Union and Confederate dealers during the American Civil War; identification of sword and edged-weapon suppliers to Nazi Germany; and much more.
The World of Ā
Author: Alfred Elton Van VogtPublisher: New York, Simon and Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Alternative histories (Fiction), Canadian
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Contact has been made between other planets and Gilbert Gosseyn finds himself trying to stop a galactic war between Earth and Venus.
The Weapon Makers
Author: Alfred Elton Van VogtPublisher: New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks, 1979. c1952.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"Earth was divided between two powers - the Empress Innelda's Imperial Isher Dynasty and the technologically superior Weapon Shops. But the precarious balance of power was upset when the Dynasty discovered interstellar travel - and interplanetary war seemed inevitable. Now the fate of the entire galaxy was in the hands of Captain Robert Hedrock, the Weapon Shops' peacemaker to the Imperial Court. But Hedrock had dangerous secrets of his own. He was a spy for the Weapon Shops - and an informant for the Dynasty - and he was hunted as a traitor by both sides!"--Back cover
The Art of the English Trade Gun in North America
Author: Nathan E. BenderPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476632723
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Symbolic ornamentation inspired by ancient Greek and Roman art is a long-standing Western tradition. The author explores the designs of 18th century English gunsmiths who engraved classical ornamental patterns on firearms gifted or traded to American Indians. A system of allegory is found that symbolized the Americas of the New World in general, and that enshrined the American Indian peoples as "noble savages." The same allegorical context was drawn upon for symbols of national liberty in the early American republic. Inadvertently, many of the symbolic designs used on the trade guns strongly resonated with several Native American spiritual traditions.
Weapons of Math Destruction
Author: Cathy O'NeilPublisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN: 0553418815
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"A former Wall Street quantitative analyst sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling, a pervasive new force in society that threatens to undermine democracy and widen inequality,"--NoveList.