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and rifles in 1862 which by the last year of the war i i had had given union cavalry and some union infantry a great advantage in tactical combat and as you said, lincoln was instrumental in getting john ericsson the contract for the monitor, and spent a great deal of time at the navy yard with john dahlgren, inventor of the foremost naval gun, watching the testing of the naval guns at the washington naval yard. he also went up to west pointe in june of 1862 and watched the test of par...

last year of the war i i had had given union cavalry and some union infantry a great advantage in tactical combat and as you said, lincoln was instrumental in getting john ericsson the contract for the monitor, and spent a great deal of time at the navy yard with john dahlgren, inventor of the foremost naval gun, watching the testing of the naval guns at the washington naval yard. he also went up to west pointe in june of 1862 and watched the test of parent rifle cannon at the cold spr...

of spencer repeating carbines and rifles in 1862 which by the last year of the war i i had had given union cavalry and some union infantry a great advantage in tactical combat and as you said, lincoln was instrumental ain getting john ericsson the contract for the monitor, and spent a great deal of time at the navy yard with john dahlgren, inventor of the foremost naval gun, watching the testing of the naval guns at the washington naval yard. he also went up to west pointe in june of 1...

professor david mendel talks about the experience of the crews aboard one of the first ironclads. this is about 50 minutes. >> well, ive got to say i was so excited when our next speaker contacted me and wanted to be part of what were doing today. and david mindell has been a friend of the "uss monitor" for quite some time. and im so pleased that his book has been reissued with a brand new name, right up here. we have it in the gift shop. ive got to admit, i was an english literature n...

much melville and hawthorne in his book just made me so happy. well, david mindell is a historian and electrical engineer. and he is the dibner professor of the history of engineering and manufacturing and. were not sure when he sleeps either. he is also director of mits program on technology and science and interdisciplinary department. he is an expert on human machine relationships in broad technical, social, and historical context. now, for years hes been combining engineering a ini...

very, very geometric and the kind of very modern, modern in the capital m sense, modernist sense of the ship, which is one of the things that made it so striking to people. it really was. you would not have been surprised if the monitor was built in the 1920s and not in the 1860s. thats almost how people thought of it. lastly, i want to talk just a little bit about all the things that have gone on. and theres been a lot of war in the last 20 years, since the first gulf war. and a lot o...

this is from world war ii. late world war ii. and its an advertisement from general electric depicting the air war over europe, which was a pretty brutal and in some ways very monitor-like experience for the crews aboard the b-17s. and you can see the introduction of electronics and electronic technology, the idea is without it everybodys flying all around and its a big mess and there are these messy people in there. add the electronics and everythings clean and the sun is shining and ...

lastly, i want to talk just a little bit about all the things that have gone on. and theres been a lot of war in the last 20 years, since the first gulf war. and a lot of those same questions that came around the "monitor" were raised. this is of course not from them but from before. this is from world war ii. late world war ii. and its an advertisement from general electric depicting the air war over europe, which was a pretty brutal and in some ways very monitor-like experience for t...

>> ive got to say i was so excited when our next speaker contacted me and wanted to be a part of what were doing today. and david mendel has been a friend of the "uss monitor" for quite some time. and im so pleased that his book has been reissued with a brand-new name, right up here. we have it in the gift shop. ive got to admit i was an english literature nerd. and so the fact that he used so much melville and hawthorne in his book just made me so happy. well, david mendel is a histor...

coffin" was awarded the sally hacker prize by the society for the history of technology. before coming to mit, he worked as a research engineer in the deep submergence laboratory where he is now a visiting investigator. maybe well find out what he is investigating. he has conducted all kinds of research there and worked on -- operated on autonomous underwater vehicles for exploring the deepest parts of the ocean and even developed the control system and pilot interface for the woods ho...