Throwing fire: projectile technology through history

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York: Cambridge Univ Press, 2002Description: 206pISBN:
  • 0521791588 (hbk.):
Subject(s): Summary: 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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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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