Read The Physics of War Online
Authors: Barry Parker
gravity,
38
Great Henry
,
93
Greeks,
28
Greenwich, England,
97
grenade launchers,
295
Gribeauval, Jean-Baptiste,
118
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20
ground state,
282
Groves, Leslie,
261
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262
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266
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267
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269
Guadalcanal,
232
gunpowder,
59
gyroscopic inertia,
215
Habsburgs,
99
half-life,
248
Hall, Albert,
208
hand cannon,
62
hand grenades,
184
Hanford, Washington,
267
Hanley, Maurice,
193
Hannibal,
47
Harper's Ferry rifle,
135
Harrison, John,
98
Hartford
,
147
Hayden, Lance,
188
HEAT warhead,
240
heavy water,
256
Heisenberg, Werner,
255
,
257
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260
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261
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270
Henry VIII,
92
Henry rifle,
136
Hermes drone,
293
Herschel, William,
199
Hertz's apparatus,
198
Hertz (unit),
200
HESH warhead,
240
Heston, Charlton,
22
Hickman, Clarence,
240
Hiroshima,
271
Holland, John,
211
Hooke, Robert,
102
Housatonic
,
149
Howard, Edward,
131
Howard, Fred,
170
Huns,
50
Hurley
,
148
Hurley, Horace,
148
Huygens, Christiaan,
107
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114
â
16
hydrogen,
118
hydroplane,
213
Immelmann, Max,
188
impact depth,
164
impulse,
37
incoherent light,
286
induced friction,
176
induction coil,
128
Industrial Revolution,
105
invisible rays,
197
iron,
23
Iron Age,
23
ironclads,
144
isotope,
254
Istanbul,
65
Ivy Mike,
276
Iwo Jima,
232
James II,
66
Janissaries,
65
Japanese zero,
234
jet airplane,
235
Joan of Arc,
64
John I,
90
Joliot-Curie, Frederic,
247
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248
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255
Joliet-Curie, Irene,
245
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255
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257
kamikaze,
232
Kennedy, John,
280
Kentucky rifle,
135
Keyhole-class spy satellites,
292
k factor,
264
Krupp,
224
Lake, Simon,
211
Landships committee,
193
laser weapons,
287
latitude,
96
law of conservation of mass,
118
law of gravity,
101
Le Mat revolver,
136
Lee, James,
183
Lee, Robert,
138
Leibniz,
101
Leonardo da Vinci,
69
,
70
,
89
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144
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165
,
193
Leonardo's attitude toward war,
77
Leonardo's military inventions,
72
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73
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74
â
76
Lewis gun,
182
Leyden jar,
124
Leyte Gulf, Battle of,
232
light,
203
Lion, the (cannon),
66
liquid-fueled rocket,
238
lithium deuteride,
278
Little Boy,
267
Little Willy,
194
loadstone,
94
long-range missiles,
280
Lorentz machine,
244
Louis XIV,
106
Louis XVI,
117
Love, Thaddeus,
149
Lugar,
183
machine gun,
181
machines,
41
madfaa,
61
magnetic field,
197
magnetic field of earth,
95
Maiman, Theodor,
287
Mannock, Mick,
188
Mariotte, Edme,
166
mass number,
254
matchlock,
88
Mauser Gewehr,
183
Maxim, Hiram,
182
maximum range ( of gun),
160
Meade, George,
138
mechanical equivalent of heat,
123
,
Megiddo,
15
mercury fulminate,
131
metallurgy,
23
metric system,
36
Midway Island,
232
Milemete, Walter,
62
military compass (Galileo),
83
Minié, Claude,
133
Minnesota
,
145
MIRV (multiple independent re-entry vehicle),
280
,
281
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
210
Mitchell, Billy,
189
Mobile Bay, Battle of,
147
moderator,
256
momentum,
37
M1 Garand,
242
Mons, Battle of,
186
Mons Meg (cannon),
66
Monte San Giovanni,
67
Morse, Samuel,
141
mortar,
184
mouseion,
33
Munroe, Charles,
240
musketeers,
88
Mussolini,
224
Mustang,
234
mustard gas,
192
Nagasaki,
271
Napoleon (cannon),
136
Napoleon's weapons,
119
navigation (of submarine),
215
negative charge,
95
Nelson, Horatio,
120
Newcomen, Thomas,
107
Nicholas, Czar,
195
night-vision device,
204
Nimitz, Chester,
232
Norden, Carl,
241
Norton, John,
133
n-type semiconductor,
291
nuclear fusion,
273
nuclear submarine,
281
Oak Ridge, Tennessee,
266
objective (telescope lens),
203
Octavius,
48
Oersted, Hans Christian,
125
,
126
Ohain, Hans von,
235
ohm,
125
Ohm, Georg,
125
Ohm's law,
125
Oliphant, Mark,
259
onager,
17
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30
,
31
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32
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35
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45
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46
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48
Oppenheimer, Robert,
259
â
63
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268
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274
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275
oxygen,
118
Pacioli, Luca,
71
Panda Committee,
276
particle beams,
295
passive sonar,
216
Pearl Harbor,
231
Peierls, Rudolf,
258
Pemberton, Henry,
110
percussion cap,
131
periscope,
214
Pershing, General,
196
Persia,
23
Persian Empire,
28
Philip II,
33
Philip VI,
52
phlogiston theory,
118
Phoenicia,
28
phosgene,
192
photon,
282
physics of hydrogen bomb,
277
â
79
physics of longbow,
54
physics of propeller,
146
physics of submarines,
212
Pickett, Brigadier General,
138
ping,
216
Pioneer II
,
148
pitch axis,
179
Pitot, Henri,
166
Pixii, Hippolyte,
142
plutonium,
259
Poland (attack on),
226
Pollock
,
220
Porro, Ignazio,
203
positive charge,
95
precession,
160
Preece, William,
201
Prince Henry,
90
Princeton
,
145
propeller (submarine),
213
proton,
246
proximity fuse,
241