amoss%batata.Huji.AC.IL%CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Amos Shapira) (06/15/89)
From: Amos Shapira <amoss%batata.Huji.AC.IL%CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> Hello, I am looking for a book (or books) that describe the development of military equipment (weapons, armour, siege equipment) from around 500BC to 1700. If you can, please list ISBN and Publishers, since it is extremely hard to get to proper catalogues in Israel. Thanks in advance, Marc A. Volovic
lehnert@valhalla.csc.ti.com (Kevin Lehnert) (06/16/89)
From: Kevin Lehnert <lehnert@valhalla.csc.ti.com> In article <7483@cbnews.ATT.COM> you write: > From: Amos Shapira <amoss%batata.Huji.AC.IL%CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> > > Hello, I am looking for a book (or books) that describe the development of > military equipment (weapons, armour, siege equipment) from around 500BC to > 1700. > > If you can, please list ISBN and Publishers, since it is extremely hard > to get to proper catalogues in Israel. > Hopefully someone else can find the ISBN and publisher's for this, but I read a bokk about this exact topic called roughly "Evolution of Warfare and Weapons" by either William Dupuy or Trevor Dupuy (I think William). I don't have a copy myself (was a library book), but it was probably published late 70's or very early 80's. It was very good in it's discussion of how technological developments preceded tactical use of the new weapons (fighting the war with last war's tactics but this war's weapons). Sorry I couldn't give you more detailed information. Kevin Lehnert TI Computer Science Center Dallas, TX
rbeville%tekig5.pen.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET (Bob Beville) (06/17/89)
From: Bob Beville <rbeville%tekig5.pen.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET> In article <7483@cbnews.ATT.COM>, amoss%batata.Huji.AC.IL%CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Amos Shapira) writes: > From: Amos Shapira <amoss%batata.Huji.AC.IL%CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> > Hello, I am looking for a book (or books) that describe the development of > military equipment (weapons, armour, siege equipment) from around 500BC to > 1700. > Thanks in advance, > Marc A. Volovic Your pursuit is connected to the development of the lathe... The book I had in mind for you was no longer in our library or it's card catalog... it was old as I recall, probably pre-ISBN system... It was "The History of The Lathe" strangely enough... and of course it wasn't in Bowker(sp?) _Books_in_Print_ . I had interest in the book years ago over the chicken vs. egg question, only which came first, the turnscrew or the lathe. . I recall discussion and reproduction of woodcut pictures of the early cannon era like Marco Polo, Columbus, DaVinci etc period . A woodcut I remember was of a beam coming out of a wall, a rope down and around the work being turned, and attached to a tredle depressed and released by the worker. He held the cutting tool to the work while he pumped the tredle up and down, the beam would deflect, load up and have the stored energy for the return motion... . The scene turns soon to the inefficient water pumps in the coal mines at Cornwall, how out-of-roundness hampered the devel opment of the steam engine, and to the job of boring the perfect cannon-barrel.....and so on. There is discussion of kingdoms that financed weapons technology... how original. As a compensation, I found you the following in the _Books_In_Print_: Abell, Sydney G. et.al. eds., _A_Bibliography_of_the_Art_of_Turning_ _&_Lathe_&_Machine_Tool_Industry_,,, LC 86-64010 157pages, 1987. ISBN 0-942325-00-1 Mus of Ornamental you will have to research the machine industry side of it from here. best regards, rbeville@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM Bob Beville, Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR 97077