Monsters : the Hindenburg disaster and the birth of pathological technology
(2015)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
303.483/REGIS,E
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2015]
©2015
©2015
DESCRIPTION
xx, 325 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780465065943 (hardcover), 0465065945 (hardcover), 9780465065943, 0465065945 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The man in the sky -- The philosopher's stone of flight -- The flying bomb -- The delirium -- Demystifying Gargantua -- A technological anomaly -- Death rattle of a Leviathan -- From hubris to horror in thirty-four seconds -- Pathological technology's chamber of horrors -- Progress through H-bombs -- The Godzilla of physics -- Stardate 90305.55 -- Endings -- The six Hindenburgs -- The pathology of delirium