Our Engines of War, and how We Got to Make Them
Author : Henry Jervis-White-Jervis
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Page : 158 pages
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Category : Firearms
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Author : Henry Jervis-White-Jervis
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Page : 158 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
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Category : Firearms
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Author : Calum E. Douglas
Publisher : HarperTempest
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 26,59 MB
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911658870
The piston engines that powered Second World War fighters, the men who designed them, and the secret intelligence work carried out by both Britain and Germany would determine the outcome of the first global air war. Advanced jet engines may have been in development but every militarily significant air battle was fought by piston-engined fighters. Whoever designed the most powerful piston engines would win air superiority and with it the ability to dictate the course of the war as a whole. This is the never before told story of a high-tech race, hidden behind the closed doors of design offices and intelligence agencies, to create the war's best fighter engine. Using the fruits of extensive research in archives around the world together with the previously unpublished memoirs of fighter engine designers, author Calum E. Douglas tells the story of a desperate contest between the world's best engineers - the Secret Horsepower Race.
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Category : Industrial arts
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Page : 516 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
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Author : John I Knight
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Page : 460 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
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Page : 668 pages
File Size : 46,49 MB
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Category : Great Britain
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Page : 656 pages
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Page : 516 pages
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Category : English literature
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Author : William Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226726347
"The Most Powerful Idea in the World argues that the very notion of intellectual property drove not only the invention of the steam engine but also the entire Industrial Revolution." -- Back cover.