Journal articleMetode · January 1, 2025
This article is an exploration of the relationship between technology and warfare from prehistoric times to the present day. The subject is examined in four realms – land, naval, air and space – and three time periods defined by the dominant power source d ...
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Journal articleTechnology and culture · January 2024
This revision of the da Vinci Medal Address, delivered at SHOT's annual meeting in Los Angeles on October 28, 2023, presents two valedictories. The first reviews fifty years in SHOT studying and teaching the history of technology and warfare. It argues tha ...
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Journal articleVulcan · January 1, 2020
In their papers prepared for this volume, Kelly DeVries and David Zimmerman explore the differing viewpoints on technological determinism that military historians bring to bear on premodern and modern warfare. This paper analyzes their respective arguments ...
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Journal articleFutures · October 1, 2009
The voyages of Christopher Columbus are invoked by Americans more than any other historical analog to capture the ethos of the manned space program. A better analogy would be Leif Ericksson. He and his fellow Norsemen reached North America five centuries b ...
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Journal articleSpace Policy · January 1, 1987
This article follows the story of Shuttle development, in the context of the history of the US space programme from Apollo to the Space Station. The Shuttle was chosen as one of a series of 'space spectaculars' and has proven to be prohibitively expensive ...
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