Weapons: Designing the Tools of War

Weapons: Designing the Tools of War
ISBN-10
1881508609
ISBN-13
9781881508601
Series
Weapons
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction
Pages
144
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Oliver PressInc
Author
Jason Richie

Description

Traces the development of weapons through the lives of such inventors and their inventions as David Bushnell and the submarine, Samuel Colt and the revolver, John Ericsson and the battleship, Hiram Maxim and the machine gun, and Ernest Swinton and the tank.

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