The story of the U.S. Navy's premier facility for research, development, testing, and evaluation of chemical compounds used in gun and rocket propellants, notably the manufacturing and testing of Jet Assist Takeoff, Zuni, Talos, and Polaris rockets and missiles.
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The story of the U.S. Navy's premier facility for research, development, testing, and evaluation of chemical compounds used in gun and rocket propellants, notably the manufacturing and testing of Jet Assist Takeoff, Zuni, Talos, and Polaris rockets and missiles.
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Powder and Propellants is the story of the U.S. Navy's premier facility for research, development, testing, and evaluation of ""energetic materials, "" the chemical compounds used in gun and rocket propellants as well as in aircraft cockpit ejection seats. Initially charged to improve the penetrating power of warheads against steel armor, Indian Head became the proving grounds for testing guns, propellant powder, shells, mounts, and armor, notably the manufacture and testing of Jet Assist Takeoff (JATO), Zuni, Talos, and Polaris rockets and missiles. First published in 1990 as a private publication for the navy, Powder and Propellants is now available again as a revised and expanded second edition, with a new chapter on the institution's last decade. Those interested in military history, technology, and government institutional history will find this book invaluable.
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Very good in Very good jacket. xviii, [2], 322, [2] pages. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Glossary of Technical Terms. Bibliography. Index. List of Tables. Rodney P. Carlisle, a founding member of History Associates, offers extensive expertise in oral history, petroleum policy, energy history, naval R&D policy, nuclear reactors, technology and policy, press and media, and post-Cold War military strategy. His publications include Encyclopedia of the Atomic Age; Where the Fleet Begins: A History of the David Taylor Research Center, 1899-1987; and Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal: American Production Reactors, 1942-1992. Dr. Carlisle has also co-written Jack Tar: A Sailor's Life with J. Welles Henderson, which chronicles daily life aboard merchant and naval ships between 1750 and 1910, and Brandy, Our Man in Acapulco: The Life and Times of Colonel Frank M. Brandstetter with Dominic Monetta, about a Hungarian immigrant who became a hotelier and Army intelligence officer. Dr. Carlisle is professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University. Revised and updated, this is the story of the U.S. Navy's premier facility for research, development, testing, and evaluation of "energetic materials, " the chemical compounds used in gun and rocket propellants as well as in aircraft cockpit ejection seats. Initially charged to improve the penetrating power of warheads against steel armor, Indian Head became the proving grounds for testing guns, propellant powder, shells, mounts, and armor, notably the manufacture and testing of Jet Assist Takeoff (JATO), Zuni, Talos, and Polaris rockets and missiles. First published in 1990 as a private publication for the Navy, Powder and Propellants is now available again as a revised and expanded second edition, with a new chapter on the institution's last decade. Those interested in military history, technology, and government institutional history will find this book invaluable.
