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9780760321157
Chronicling the hits, the misses, & the technological advances produced by the military's high-tech hubs, this book takes readers from the ironclads, land mines, & ship-launched hydrogen balloons of the Civil War to the world-changing bombs of the Atomic Age; & from the military's first flirtation with flight to the conquest of space.Yenne, William is the author of 'Secret Gadgets And Strange Gizmos High-Tech (And Low-Tech) Innovations of the U.S. Military', published 2006 under ISBN 9780760321157 and ISBN 0760321159.
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