sonobuoy, 217
sound suppressor, 155
specific heat, 123
Spencer, Christopher, 135
Spencer rifle, 135
Spitfire, 230, 234
spontaneous emission, 283
Springfield rifle, 135, 138
Sputnik, 280
spy satellites, 292
stability of bullet, 161
steam engine, 107, 108
Stern, Otto, 253
stimulated emission, 282
Stockton, Robert, 144, 145
stopping power, 164
Strange, Louis, 187
Strassmann, Fritz, 250
Stuka, 225
Sturgeon, William, 139, 140
submachine gun, 242
submarine, 148, 211–14
supercavitation, 218
Swedish intervention, 99
Swinton, Ernest, 193, 194
Szilard, Leo, 253, 255, 256, 271
Taiho, 221
Tartaglia, 78, 79
Tecumseh, 147
telegraph, 139–41
telescope (Galileo), 84
Teller, Edward, 253, 263, 274–76
Tennessee, 147
terminal ballistics, 163
Thales, 28
thermal diffusion, 266
thermocline, 216, 217
Thirty Years’ War, 87, 98
Thompson, Benjamin, 122
three-axis control, 167
thrust, 173
Thutmose III, 15, 16
Tiglath-pileser III, 24, 26, 27
Tigris River, 24
Titan, 115
Titanic, 191
Tizard, Henry, 209, 227
torpedo, 146, 147, 217, 218
torque, 40, 134
torsion, 30, 31
Toscanelli, 91
touchhole, 88
Townes, Charles, 285, 286, 287
tractor design, 180
trajectory of bullet, 161
transistor, 288
transitional ballistics, 155
Treaty of Versailles, 196, 224
trebuchet, 17, 30, 32, 35, 45
Trinity, 267
triode, 288
Truman, Harry, 233, 267, 269, 271, 275
turbojet, 236
Turing, Alan, 244
twist rate, 162, 163
Ulam, Stanislaw, 275, 276, 278
Ulam-Teller design, 275, 276, 278
Uranverein (Uranium Society), 257, 258
Urey, Harold, 253, 261
V-1 rocket, 239
V-2 attacks on London, 239
V-2 rocket, 237, 238
valence band, 289
Valens (Roman emperor), 49, 50
velocity, 35, 36
velocity of bullet, 111
Vemork, Norway, 257
Verrocchio, 69
versorium, 94
Vickers Company, 182
Virginia, 145, 147
viscosity, 176
Volta, Alessandro, 124
war at sea, 90
Watson-Watt, Robert, 227
Watt, James, 107–109, 144
wavelength, 200
wave theory of light, 115
Weber, Joseph, 284
Weizsäcker, Carl, 258
Wellington, General, 122
Welsh, 54
Wheatstone, Charles, 140
Wheeler, John, 253, 254, 255
wheel lock, 89, 113, 114
Whitehead, Robert, 217
Whittle, Frank, 235
Wilkinson, John, 107–10
William II, 51, 52
Wilson, Woodrow, 195, 196
wing warping, 168, 170
Wolfpack tactic, 219, 220
wonder weapon, 16, 19, 22, 23
work, 41
World War I, 181
World War II, 223–44
Wright brothers, 165, 167
Wright, Orville, 167
Wright, Wilbur, 167
x-ray, 199, 202
x-ray laser, 295
Yamamoto, 232
yaw axis, 179
Young, Thomas, 115
Zinn, Walter, 264
Zuse, Konrad, 243