Borgia, Cesare, 70
bow and arrow, 41, 42
Bowen, Edward, 228
Boyle's law, 115
Bragg, William, 199
Brattain, Walter, 288, 290, 291
Braun, Wernher von, 237, 280
Breit Gregory, 253
British Enfield rifle, 135, 138
British system, 36
bronze, 23
Bronze Age, 24
Brooklyn, 147–48
Buchanan, Franklin, 147–48
Bush, Vannevar, 259, 261
Caesar, 48
calculus, 101
camber, 166, 174
Cambria, Battle of, 194
cannon, 62–66
caravel, 91
carbine, 136
Carthaginians, 47
Castile, 64
catapult, 32
Cavalla, 221
Cavendish, Henry, 118
cavity magnetron, 209
Cayley, George, 166, 168
center of mass, 92
centripetal force, 114
CH system, 228
Chadwick, James, 245
chain mail, 51, 57
chain reaction, 252–54
Chanute, Octave, 166–68
chariot, 19, 20, 22, 23
Charles's law, 152
Charles VII, 66, 67
Charles VIII, 67, 68, 70
CHL system, 228
chlorine gas, 192
Christian IV, 99
Church, Gilbert, 267
Churchill, Winston, 193, 194, 226, 244
circumference of earth, 29
clean bomb, 279
coherent light, 286
Colbert, John Baptiste, 106
Cold War, 280, 281
Colossus, Mark I, 244
Colt, Samuel, 132
Columbus, 91
commutator, 142
compass, 91, 95
composite bow, 43
Compton, Arthur, 259
computers during World War II, 243
conduction band, 289
Confederate States of America, 137
conservation of momentum, 38
Constantinople, 64, 65
Cooke, William, 140
copper, 23
Corona satellites, 292
Corsair, 234
cosmic rays, 263
Coulomb, Charles, 124
Crécy, Battle of, 52
critical mass, 263, 267
crossbow, 43, 48, 51
cruise missile, 234
Curie, Marie, 203, 247
Curtiss, Glenn, 177, 180
Dark Ages, 50, 69
Davy, Humphrey, 126
Descartes, Rene, 114
deuterium, 274
diffusion, 255
Doenitz, Karl, 219, 220
dogfights, 18, 188
doping, 290
Doppler Effect, 204, 205, 216
Doppler, Christian, 205
Dornberger, Walter, 237
downwash, 175
drag (bullet), 158, 159
drones, 291–93
duFay, Charles, 123, 124
Dunkirk, 226, 227
dynamo, 130, 142
dyne, 37
early guns of war, 87
earth as giant magnet, 94
e-bomb, 294
Edward III, 52
Egypt, 24
Einstein, Albert, 193, 246, 255, 256, 257, 282
Eisenhower, Dwight, 233
electric and magnetic fields, 126
electric field, 197
electric field lines, 95, 128, 129
electric generator, 128
electric motor, 128
electromagnet, 139, 140
electromagnetic field, 197
electromagnetic induction, 127
electromagnetic pulse, 294, 295
electromagnetic spectrum, 199
electromagnetic waves, 197, 198
electron volt, 252
elevator, 178
Elizabeth (Queen of Belgium), 256
energy, 39
energy band, 288
energy level, 282
Enewetak Atoll, 276
English Revolution, 107
Enigma, 243, 244
Eratosthenes, 29, 33
Ericsson, John, 144, 145
Estes, 277
excited state, 283
Explorer 1, 292
external ballistics, 157–61
Faraday, Michael, 126, 139, 142
Farragut, David, 147
Fat Man, 267
Ferdinand, Franz, 185
Ferdinand II, 98
Fermi, Enrico, 247–50, 253–56, 263–65, 274
Feynman, Richard, 263
fission, 251, 263
first airplanes, 165
first tanks, 193, 194
flame thrower, 183, 185
flaps, 177
flintlock, 112–14
flintlock mechanism, 113, 114
Flyer I, 170
Flyer II, III, 172
Flying Circus, 188
Foch, General, 196
Fokker, Anthony, 187
force, 36
form drag, 56, 57
form factor, 160
form friction, 176
Forsyth, Alexander, 131, 132
Fort Morgan, 147, 148
Franklin, Benjamin, 124
French Revolution, 106, 117
Frisch, Otto, 250, 251, 258
Fritigern, 49, 50
Fritz X, 241
Fuchs, Klaus, 274, 275
fulcrum, 41
Fulton, Robert, 148, 211
fusion, 273
gain medium, 286
Galileo, 80, 81, 157, 203
Galileo's ballistics, 81
Galvani, Luigi, 124
gamma rays, 199
Gamow, George, 253
Garros, Roland, 180, 187
gaseous diffusion, 266
Gatling, Richard, 143
Gatling gun, 143, 181
Geiger Counter, 248
Genghis Khan, 59, 60
George, Lloyd, 193, 194
German atomic bomb, 269
German U-boats, 190–91, 195, 219, 220, 229
Gettysburg, 138
Gettysburg, Battle of, 138, 139
giant crossbow of Leonardo, 75
Gilbert, William, 93, 94
Goddard, Robert, 236, 240
Goeben, 190
Göring, Hermann, 230
Goths, 49, 50
Gould, Gordon, 287
GPS, 215
Grant, Ulysses, 139
gravity, 38
Great Henry, 93
Greeks, 28
Greenwich, England, 97
grenade launchers, 295
Gribeauval, Jean-Baptiste, 118–20
ground state, 282
Groves, Leslie, 261, 262, 266, 267, 269
Guadalcanal, 232
gunpowder, 59
gyroscope, 161, 215
gyroscopic inertia, 215
Haber, Fritz, 191–93
Habsburgs, 99
Hahn, Otto, 249–52, 255, 257
half-life, 248
Hall, Albert, 208
Halley, Edmond, 97, 102
hand cannon, 62
hand grenades, 184
Hanford, Washington, 267
Hanley, Maurice, 193
Hannibal, 47
Harold II, 51, 52
Harper's Ferry rifle, 135
Harrison, John, 98
Hartford, 147
Hayden, Lance, 188
HEAT warhead, 240
heavy water, 256
Heisenberg, Werner, 255, 257, 260, 261, 270
Henry, Joseph, 140, 141
Henry VIII, 92
Henry rifle, 136
Henry the Navigator, 90, 91
Hermes drone, 293
Herschel, William, 199
Hertz, Heinrich, 198, 200
Hertz's
apparatus, 198
Hertz (unit), 200
HESH warhead, 240
Heston, Charlton, 22
Hickman, Clarence, 240
Hipparchus, 29, 33, 96
Hiroshima, 271
Hitler, 219, 224, 225, 229
Hittites, 19, 20, 21
Holland, John, 211
Holy Roman Empire, 98, 99
Hooke, Robert, 102
Housatonic, 149
Howard, Edward, 131
Howard, Fred, 170
howitzer, 136, 183, 184
Huff Duff, 219, 220
Hundred Years’ War, 52, 63, 64
Hunley, 211, 217
Huns, 50
Hurley, 148
Hurley, Horace, 148
Huygens, Christiaan, 107, 114–16
hydrogen, 118
hydrogen bomb, 273, 277–79
hydroplane, 213
ICBM, 280, 281
Immelmann, Max, 188
impact depth, 164
impulse, 37
incoherent light, 286
induced friction, 176
induction coil, 128
Industrial Revolution, 105
inertia, 36, 37
infrared, 203, 204
internal ballistics, 151, 152
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, 248, 255
Joliet-Curie, Irene, 245, 255, 257
Kadesh, Battle of, 19–22
kamikaze, 232
Kennedy, John, 280
Kentucky rifle, 135
Keyhole-class spy satellites, 292
k factor, 264
kinetic energy, 39, 40
Kitty Hawk, NC, 168, 169, 171
Krupp, 224
Lake, Simon, 211
Landships committee, 193
laser, 282, 286, 287
laser weapons, 287
latitude, 96
Lavoisier, Antoine, 117, 118
law of conservation of mass, 118
law of gravity, 101
Lawrence, Ernest, 259, 261, 262
Le Mat revolver, 136
Lee, James, 183
Lee, Robert, 138
Leibniz, 101
Leonardo da Vinci, 69, 70, 89, 144, 165, 193
Leonardo's attitude toward war, 77
Leonardo's military inventions, 72, 73, 74–76
Leonardo's physics, 71, 72
Lewis gun, 182
Leyden jar, 124
Leyte Gulf, Battle of, 232
lift, 172, 174
light, 203
Lilienthal, Otto, 166, 168
Lincoln, Abraham, 137, 139, 144
Lion, the (cannon), 66
Lippershay, Hans, 84, 203
liquid-fueled rocket, 238
lithium deuteride, 278
Little Boy, 267
Little Willy, 194
loadstone, 94
longbow, 52, 53, 55
longitude, 96, 97
long-range missiles, 280
Lorentz machine, 244
Los Alamos, 262, 267
Louis XIV, 106
Louis XVI, 117
Love, Thaddeus, 149
Luftwaffe, 226, 230, 231
Lugar, 183
Lusitania, 190, 191, 195
machine gun, 181
machines, 41
madfaa, 61
magnetic field, 197
magnetic field of earth, 95
magnetron, 208–10
Maiman, Theodor, 287
Manhattan project, 261, 265, 268
Mannock, Mick, 188
Marconi, Guglielmo, 200, 201
Mariotte, Edme, 166
Mark I, 194, 195
Mary Rose, 92, 93
maser, 285, 286
mass number, 254
matchlock, 88
MAUD committee, 258, 259
Mauser Gewehr, 183
Maxim, Hiram, 182
maximum range ( of gun), 160
Maxwell, James, 197, 198
Meade, George, 138
mechanical equivalent of heat, 123,
Megiddo, 15
Meitner, Lise, 249–52, 259
mercury fulminate, 131
Messerschmitt, 234, 235
metallurgy, 23
metric system, 36
microchips, 288, 291
Midway Island, 232
Mike test, 276, 277
Milemete, Walter, 62
military compass (Galileo), 83
Minié ball, 133, 135, 138
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
Mongols, 50, 59, 62
Monitor, 145, 147
Mons, Battle of, 186
Mons Meg (cannon), 66
Monte San Giovanni, 67
Morse code, 141, 201
Morse, Samuel, 141
mortar, 184
mouseion, 33
Munroe, Charles, 240
musketeers, 88
muskets, 88, 98
Mussolini, 224
Mustang, 234
mustard gas, 192
Muwatallis II, 19, 20, 21
muzzle velocity, 152–57
Nagasaki, 271
Napoleon, 117, 119, 120, 121, 122
Napoleon (cannon), 136
Napoleon's weapons, 119
Nautilus, 211, 217
navigation (of submarine), 215
negative charge, 95
Nelson, Horatio, 120
neutron, 245, 247, 248
Newcomen, Thomas, 107
Newton, Isaac, 36, 38, 100, 101
Newton's laws, 37, 102
Nicholas, Czar, 195
night-vision device, 204
Nimitz, Chester, 232
Norden bombsight, 241, 242
Norden, Carl, 241
Norton, John, 133
n-type semiconductor, 291
nuclear fission, 252, 255
nuclear fusion, 273
nuclear reactor, 256, 264, 265
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, 30, 31, 32, 35, 45, 46, 48
Oppenheimer, Robert, 259–63, 268, 274, 275
oxygen, 118
Pacioli, Luca, 71
Panda Committee, 276
parabola, 56, 82, 83, 158
particle beams, 295
Pash, Boris, 269, 270
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, 277–79
physics of longbow, 54
physics of propeller, 146
physics of
submarines, 212
Pickett, Brigadier General, 138
pile (electric), 124, 125
ping, 216
Pioneer II, 148
pitch axis, 179
Pitot, Henri, 166
Pixii, Hippolyte, 142
Plato, 29, 30
plutonium, 259
poisonous gas, 191, 192
Poland (attack on), 226
Polaris, 29, 91, 93, 94, 95
Pollock, 220
population inversion, 284, 285
Porro, Ignazio, 203
positive charge, 95
potential energy, 39, 40
power, 39, 40
precession, 160
Predator drone, 292, 293
Preece, William, 201
Prince Henry, 90
Princeton, 145
Principia, 36, 102
propeller (submarine), 213
proton, 246
proximity fuse, 241
p-type semiconductor, 290
pulley, 41
Punic Wars, 47
pusher design, 170
Rabi, Isidor, 255
radar, 204, 227
radar jamming, 229
radar system, 206, 207
radian, 40, 134
radiation channel, 278, 279
radioactive decay, 247
radio transmission, 201
radio waves, 200
Ramses II, 19, 20, 21
Randall, John, 208, 228
Reaper drone, 292
recoil, 154, 155
recoil of cannon, 66
recurved bow, 43
Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen), 188
reflecting telescope, 203
refracting telescope, 203
relay (telegraph), 140
resistance, 125
Richthofen, Manfred von, 188
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 189
rifling of gun barrel, 161, 162
right-hand rule, 126, 127
Ritter, Johann, 199
Robins, Benjamin, 110–12
Robinson, John, 108
robots, 295
roll axis, 179
Roman Empire, 47, 48
Romans, 32, 47
Röntgen, Wilhelm, 13, 199, 202
Roosevelt, President (Franklin D.), 255, 256, 259, 261, 267
Rosen, Leon, 252, 253
rotational inertia, 134
Roxburgh Castle, 66
Royal Society, 115
rudder, 178
Rumford, Count, 122
Sachs, Alexander, 256
Sagres, 90
saltpeter, 60, 61, 117
satellites, 291
Schawlow, Arthur, 287
Schwartz, Berthold, 62
screw, 41
screw propeller, 144
scutum, 48
Seaborg, Glenn, 259
Selleck, Tom, 136
semiconductor, 288, 289
Serber, Robert, 263
Sforza, Ludovico, 70, 73, 77
Sharps, Christian, 136
Sharps rifle, 136
sheer drag, 56
Shokaku, 221
Shockley, William, 288, 291
siege towers, 27, 28
six shooter, 132
skin friction, 176
Smeaton, John, 166
Smeaton's coefficient, 166, 170
Smith, Francis, 144
Socrates, 29, 39
solenoid, 126
solid-state physics, 288
Solomon Islands, 232
Somme, Battle of, 194
sonar, 211, 216, 217
sonic boom, 155, 156