Book Description
Examines the construction, battles, and technological and historical impact of the Civil War battleships, the Monitor and the Merrimac.
Author : Alden R. Carter
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Hampton Roads (Va.), Battle of, 1862
ISBN : 9780531200919
Examines the construction, battles, and technological and historical impact of the Civil War battleships, the Monitor and the Merrimac.
Author : Jennifer Dent
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1633381765
Mallory, a young college professor, is haunted by vivid dreams filled with struggle and sadness. After enlisting the help of a man who is conducting a new study, Mallory begins to uncover the meanings behind her dreams, spiraling into a world of anger, mistrust, and denial. "The Monitor" explores those voices hiding in the innermost corners of our minds, how we try to ignore them, and what we are forced to do about them when we can no longer pretend they don't exist.
Author : Sally Edwards
Publisher : Heart Zones Company
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 13,72 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN :
THE HEART RATE MONITOR BOOK is for anyone who wants to learn about the use of one of the most important pieces of exercise equipment today. Get the information you need to start the fitness program that works! The heart rate monitor has the potential to revolutionize training for health, fitness, and competition.
Author : David A. Mindell
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1421406055
The USS Monitor famously battled the CSS Virginia (the armored and refitted USS Merrimack) at Hampton Roads in March 1862. This updated edition of David A. Mindell's classic account of the ironclad warships and the human dimension of modern warfare commemorates the 150th anniversary of this historic encounter. Mindell explores how mariners—fighting "blindly," below the waterline—lived in and coped with the metal monster they called the "iron coffin." He investigates how the ironclad technology, new to war in the nineteenth century, changed not only the tools but also the experience of combat and anticipated today’s world of mechanized, pushbutton warfare. The writings of William Frederick Keeler, the ship’s paymaster, inform much of this book, as do the experiences of everyman sailor George Geer, who held Keeler in some contempt. Mindell uses their compelling stories, and those of other shipmates, to recreate the thrills and dangers of living and fighting aboard this superweapon. Recently, pieces of the Monitor wreck have been raised from their watery grave, and with them, information about the ship continues to be discovered. A new epilogue describes the recovery of the Monitor turret and its display at the USS Monitor Museum in Newport News, Virginia. This sensitive and enthralling history of the USS Monitor ensures that this fateful ship, and the men who served on it, will be remembered for generations to come.
Author : William Hoffman
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 1863
Category : California
ISBN :
Author : Avi
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 41,43 MB
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1423140621
When his father is killed fighting for the Union in the War Between the States, thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll must take a job to help support his family. He manages to find work at a bustling ironworks in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, where dozens of men are frantically pounding together the strangest ship Tom has ever seen. A ship made of iron. Tom becomes assistant to the ship's inventor, a gruff, boastful man named Captain John Ericsson. He soon learns that the Union army has very important plans for this iron ship called the Monitor. It is supposed to fight the Confederate "sea monster"--another ironclad--the Merrimac. But Ericsson is practically the only person who believes the Monitor will float. Everyone else calls it "Ericsson's Folly" or "the iron coffin." Meanwhile, Tom's position as Ericsson's assistant has made him a target of Confederate spies, who offer him money for information about the ship. Tom finds himself caught between two certain dangers: an encounter with murderous spies and a battle at sea in an iron coffin
Author : John L. Parker, Jr.
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,77 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781891369841
A concise guide to using a heart monitor for optimal running, cycling, or triathlon performance.
Author : Arthur Mokin
Publisher : Backinprint.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 2000-05
Category : Armored vessels
ISBN : 9780595093793
With a novelist's eye and the historian's devotion to research, Mokin recreates these early years of the Civil War, immersing the reader in this time and place. We share the motivations and emotions of the country's leaders, the soldiers and sailors, and the families at home-feeling their fears and experiencing their frustrations. Ironclad is immensely readable-popular history at its best. "Arthur Mokin's vivid account...presents absorbing portraits of the personalities involved, as well as lucid account of the naval tactics and strategy on both sides." —Lloyd's List
Author : Daniel Bennett
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Monitor lizards
ISBN :
Author : Stephen J. Bigelow
Publisher : TAB/Electronics
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780070057340
Provides you with specific maintenance and repair techniques that will save time. Includes details on how to use test equipment, troubleshooting tips, guidelines, and methods, and a chapter on flat-panel displays.