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(More customer reviews)I read this good book, here in Brazil. This book has many great things:
1-Page 10 > Military research is mainly American.
2-Page 19 > Boeing depends of Pentagon.
3-Page 75 > Civil aviation came from military research.
4-Page 77 > Computers came from military money and will.
5-Page 152 > Atoms for peace was mainly a failure.
6-Page 211 > Articial inteligence is military.
7-Page 376 > USA is leader in military affairs, experience and reasearch.
In many places of this book, we can see many amazing things. The chapter 9 of this book is the best thing that I ever read, about non-lethal weapons. Anyone can understand this book.
This book has some failures:
1-Page 7. This book claims that United States Army Aviation Branch doesn't operates airplanes. In fact it uses airplanes, such as Beechcraft C-12 Huron(airplane), General Atomics MQ-1C Grey Eagle (UAV),etc.
2-Page 69. This book claims that wristwatches came from 1917 in the United States. In fact, the Brazilian Alberto Santos Dumont(1873-1932) really made a wristwatch in 1907 and it became fashion in this year. Even before, the Queen Victoria (1819-1901) used a crude wristwatch sometimes.
3-Page 73. This book claims that Boeing 707 was the first successful jet airliner. In fact the Soviet or Russian Tupolev Tu-104 was the first successful jet airliner, in the world. In fact the Tu-104 was the sole jetliner operating in the world between 1956 and 1958.
4-Page 84. This book claims that Enigma Machine used ten gears. In fact, any Enigma Machine had more than five rotors or gears.
5-Page 226. This book claims that in 1991, Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) was the mayor of Moscow. In fact, in 1991, he was the the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999 rulling Russia. In fact, Boris Yeltsin never was the mayor of Moscow.
These few failures are small mistakes in a mainly very good book. Four stars for it. Please, I read the paperback ediction of this good book. Perhaps this ediction has another number for each part of the text. Please, this book is for anyone.
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David Hambling tells the fascinating story of human ingenuity and the complex world it has created—a world at once safer and yet more perilous than ever. Throughout history, war and the threat of war have driven innovation and accelerated the uptake of new technology—from the nomadic warriors who introduced the stirrup and the kebab to the world, to the British Navy's funding of Marconi's newfangled radio. Since 1945 the relationship between military needs and modern business has grown ever closer, especially in the United States.With the skills of a master storyteller, Hambling traces the history of this relationship in the modern era and shows how precision eye surgery emerged out of the military quest for a "death ray," how transistors and silicon chips initially helped build better bombs, and exactly why the 747 has such a distinctive shape. Hambling explores the current cutting edge of modern military research as he seeks to identify the technologies that will transform our lives in the decades to come. If history does repeat itself, Weapons Grade is much more than the story of how we got to where we are; it is the story of where we are going, for better or worse.
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