Throwing fire: projectile technology through history
Material type: TextPublication details: New York: Cambridge Univ Press, 2002Description: 206pISBN:- 0521791588 (hbk.):
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Book | Mindef Library & Info Centre On-Shelf | 623.45 CRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0014046 |
Presents the evolution of human efforts to throw a projectile hard and accurately. Follows progress from hand throwing of stones and spears, through bows and arrows, Greek fire, the development of gunpowder, to the V2 rockets of the second world war, ballistic missiles and the conquest of space.
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