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Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel : The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It by Julia Keller (2008, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100670018945
ISBN-139780670018949
eBay Product ID (ePID)63866035
Product Key Features
Book TitleMr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel : The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / 19th Century, Military / Weapons, Inventions, Historical, Science & Technology
Publication Year2008
IllustratorYes
GenreTechnology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorJulia Keller
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight17.5 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-040438
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"With a rat-a-tat pace and a wicked sense of humor, Julia Keller uses the story of Gatling's famous machine-gun to take us on an exuberant and entertaining tour through American capitalism in the nineteenth-century. This book is a carnival for history buffs - bursting with colorful characters, uncanny connections, and contagious enthusiasm." -Debby Applegate, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for "The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher" "Julia Keller has not only given us the fascinating story of the Gatling gun and its colorful inventor, but has also placed it into a valid and original context. She takes us into the middle of nineteenth century America as it really was: a westward-looking continent packed with dreams, energy, and ambitious practical ideas, a place where mechanical inventions created a vision of limitless power that shaped much of the nation's philosophy and destiny. This is the story of the artifact as changing history, the early machine gun as bringing about as great a transformation as the simple stirrup did in its era. If you haven't heard of Julia Keller, you'll hear of her now." -Charles Bracelen Flood, author of "Grant and Sherman: The Friendship that Won the Civil War" and past president of PEN American Center.
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal623.4/424 B
Grade ToUP
SynopsisPulitzer Prize-winner Keller offers a riveting account of the Gatling gun's invention, its misunderstood creator, and its tremendous impact on American and world events. 8-page b&w photo insert., A Pulitzer Prize winner explores the role of the first machine gun in transforming America into a superpower Although it was little used during the American Civil Warathe time in which it was inventedathe Gatling gun soon changed the nature of warfare and the course of world history. Discharging two hundred shots per minute with alarming accuracy, the worldas first machine gun became vitally important to protecting and expanding Americaas overseas interests. Its inventor, Richard Gatling, was famous in his own time for creating and improving many industrial designs, from bicycles and steamship propellers to flush toilets. A man of great business and scientific acumen, Gatling actually proposed his gun as a way of saving lives, thinking it would decrease the size of armies and, therefore, make it easier to supply soldiers and reduce malnutrition deaths. The scientists who unleashed Americaas atomic arsenal less than a century later would see it much the same way. In "Mr. Gatlingas Terrible Marvel," Julia Keller offers a riveting account of the Gatling gunas invention, its misunderstood creator, and its tremendous impact on American and world events. She also shows how the gun, in its combination of ingenuity, idealism, and destructive power, perfectly exemplified the paradox of Americaas rise as a world superpower., Documents the machine gun's role as a key weapon in protecting America's interests overseas, in an account that also profiles the contributions of its inventor, who developed the machine gun in the hopes of reducing military headcount and casualties.
LC Classification NumberUF620.G3K45 2008
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