Inventing the Model of 1911
Need and Innovation Combine to Create a Legendary Combat Pistol
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The Army's need: An automatic pistol with the stopping power of the .45 caliber Colt single action Army revolver. Colt and John Browning collaborated to meet the Army's need. The result was the greatest combat pistol ever designed. This book examines why the Army insisted on .45 caliber, the innovation required to meet that requirement, and how the model of 1911 beat the competition in reliability, function, and feel. The Model 1911 is compared to earlier Colt design iterations and pistols from other manufacturers through military reports, newspaper articles, and patent records. A unique perspective on an American icon.
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The 21st century sniper is a mature, intelligent shooter who leverages technology to his deadly advantage. He has spent thousands of hours honing his skills. He is a master of concealment in all environments, from the mountains of Afghanistan to the crowded streets of Iraq. He is trained in science and left alone to create the unique art of the kill. To the sniper, the battlefield is like a painter’s blank canvas. It is his job to simultaneously utilize tools, training, and creativity to deliver devastating psychological impact upon the battlefield. And it is he alone who is left with the intimacy of the kill.
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4 out of 5 stars
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READ it, Don't Listen
- De Nathan en 02-28-13
De: Brandon Webb, y otros
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First Freedom
- De: David Harsanyi
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 109
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For America, the gun is a story of innovation, power, violence, character, and freedom. From the founding of the nation to the pioneering of the West, from the freeing of the slaves to the urbanization of the 20th century, our country has had a complex and lasting relationship with firearms. Now, in First Freedom, nationally syndicated columnist and veteran writer David Harsanyi explores the ways in which firearms have helped preserve our religious, economic, and cultural institutions for more than two centuries.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Must-Read/Must-Listen
- De Nathan en 01-22-19
De: David Harsanyi
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The Gun
- De: C. J. Chivers
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 18 h y 50 m
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It is the world's most widely recognized weapon, the most profuse tool for killing ever made. More than fifty national armies carry the automatic Kalashnikov, as do an array of police, intelligence, and security agencies all over the world. In this tour de force, prizewinning New York Times reporter C. J. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A compelling book about much more than guns!
- De Edward en 10-26-10
De: C. J. Chivers
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The Guns of John Moses Browning
- The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World
- De: Nathan Gorenstein
- Narrado por: Michael David Axtell
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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Few people are aware that John Moses Browning - a tall, humble, cerebral man born in 1855 and raised as a Mormon in the American West - was the mind behind many of the world-changing firearms that dominated more than a century of conflict. He invented the design used in virtually all modern pistols, created the most popular hunting rifles and shotguns, and conceived the machine guns that proved decisive not just in World Wars I and II but nearly every major military action since. Yet few in America knew his name until he was into his 60s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Story
- De tb en 07-02-21
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The Dawn of Innovation
- The First American Industrial Revolution
- De: Charles R. Morris
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 12 h y 27 m
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 76
In the 30 years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J. P. Morgan walked the earth. But as Charles R. Morris shows us, the platform for that spectacular growth spurt was built in the first half of the century. By the 1820s, America was already the world's most productive manufacturer and the most intensely commercialized society in history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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How our industries started
- De Jean en 02-22-13
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American Gun
- A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms
- De: Chris Kyle, William Doyle
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
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At the time of his tragic death in February 2013, former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the most accomplished sniper in U.S. military history, was finishing a remarkable book that retold American history through the lens of a hand-selected list of firearms. Kyle masterfully argues that guns have played a fascinating, indispensable, and often under-appreciated role in our national story. He carefully chose ten guns to help tell his story, ranging from the American long rifle to the modern M-16, and uses these guns as a platform for exploring American history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Important Look at US History
- De harry en 06-24-13
De: Chris Kyle, y otros
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Gun Barons
- The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them
- De: John Bainbridge Jr.
- Narrado por: Lee Goettl
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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Love them or hate them, guns are woven deeply into the American soul. Names like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington are legendary. Yet few people are aware of the roles these men played at a crucial time in United States history, from westward expansion in the 1840s, through the Civil War, and into the dawn of the Gilded Age. Through personal drive and fueled by bloodshed, they helped propel the young country into the forefront of the world's industrial powers. Their creations helped save a nation divided, while planting seeds that would divide the country again later.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Condescending and Biased at best
- De Harry W King III en 01-24-24
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Glock
- The Rise of America's Gun
- De: Paul M. Barrett
- Narrado por: Kiff VandenHeuvel
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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Today the Glock pistol has been embraced by two-thirds of all U.S. police departments, glamorized in countless Hollywood movies, and featured as a ubiquitous presence on prime-time TV. It has been rhapsodized by hip-hop artists, and coveted by cops and crooks alike. Created in 1982 by Gaston Glock, an obscure Austrian curtain-rod manufacturer, and swiftly adopted by the Austrian army, the Glock pistol, with its lightweight plastic frame and large-capacity spring-action magazine, arrived in America at a fortuitous time.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story. Could have done w/o anti gun rhetoric
- De jcgeesling en 02-24-19
De: Paul M. Barrett
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The Future of the Gun
- De: Frank Miniter
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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The history of the American gun is intricately entwined with the history of America itself, and the potential future developments in gun technology could change the world. However, the radical anti-gun lobby stands between innovation and the American people. Bestselling author Frank Miniter describes amazing breakthroughs waiting to happen in gun technology - and how gun grabbers threaten to stop progress in its tracks.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Book
- De Tippycc en 04-11-18
De: Frank Miniter
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World
- A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
- De: William Rosen
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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Award-winning author William Rosen tells the story of the men responsible for the Industrial Revolution and the machine that drove it: the steam engine.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Revelation about a Revolution
- De Roy en 08-01-10
De: William Rosen
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Firepower
- How Weapons Shaped Warfare
- De: Paul Lockhart
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 21 h y 4 m
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The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. In Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells the story of the evolution of weaponry and how it transformed not only the conduct of warfare, but also the very structure of power in the West, from the Renaissance to the dawn of the atomic era.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Needs More Guns Less Political Opinion
- De Jeb en 10-20-22
De: Paul Lockhart
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Principles of Scientific Management
- De: Frederick Winslow Taylor
- Narrado por: Trevor Bond
- Duración: 3 h y 22 m
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The Principles of Scientific Management (1911) is a monograph published by Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915), a manufacturing manager, mechanical engineer, and management consultant. This work laid out Taylor's views on the principles of scientific management, or industrial-era organization and decision theory. The term scientific management refers to coordinating the enterprise for everyone's benefit including increased wages for laborers, often referred to as Taylor's Principles, or Taylorism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So this is what the old guys talk about.
- De Raymond Bing en 02-14-24
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Tesla
- Inventor of the Electrical Age
- De: W. Bernard Carlson
- Narrado por: Allan Robertson
- Duración: 16 h y 11 m
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Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the 20th century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America's first celebrity scientists, enjoying the company of New York high society and dazzling the likes of Mark Twain with his electrical demonstrations. An astute self-promoter and gifted showman, he cultivated a public image of the eccentric genius.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A detailed examination of Tesla's work
- De Jean en 02-01-14
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The White Sniper
- Simo Häyhä
- De: Tapio Saarelainen
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 5 h y 8 m
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Simo Häyhä was a man of action who spoke very little, but he was respected by his men and his superiors and given many difficult missions, including taking out specific targets. Able to move silently and swiftly through the landscape, melting into the snowbound surroundings in his white camouflage fatigues, his aim was deadly and his quarry rarely escaped. The Russians learned of his reputation as a marksman and tried several times to kill him by indirect fire. He was promoted from corporal to second lieutenant and he was awarded the Cross of Kollaa.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not what you think
- De Paul Z. en 11-28-19
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The Pursuit of Power
- Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
- De: William H. McNeill
- Narrado por: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Duración: 15 h y 2 m
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In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves with equal mastery from the crossbow - banned by the Church in 1139 as too lethal for Christians to use against one another - to the nuclear missile, from the sociological consequences of drill in the 17th century to the emergence of the military-industrial complex in the 20th.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant, lucid history
- De Ariel en 07-04-22
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Generalist, Volume 1
- De: iMinds
- Narrado por: Luca James Lee, Ellouise Rothwell
- Duración: 1 h y 33 m
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A compilation of diverse topics across our 12 categories. You will learn about: the history of whaling, the art of film noir, the psychology behind the Stockholm Syndrome, the history of the U.S. Federal Reserve, the story of Joan of Arc, the discovery of penicillin, the science of meteorites, the history of the D-Day Invasion, the unexplained phenomenon of crop circles, the adventure of climbing Everest, the thought of Confucius, and the start of fireworks.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Compilation
- De Michael T Schreiber en 09-18-09
De: iMinds
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The Second Amendment Manifesto
- What Every American Should Know about Their Constitutional Right to Own Guns
- De: John Paine
- Narrado por: John Paine
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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Are you worried that your Second Amendment rights will be taken away? Are you sick of patronizing politicians, celebrities, and media pundits claiming you don’t have the right to own guns? Do you want to know the real story of the Second Amendment, so you can decide what it means for yourself? The Second Amendment Manifesto is for you. In true stories stretching from ancient Greece to modern-day America, you’ll quickly discover how the Second Amendment came to be, why it’s worth protecting, and what you can do to defend it right now.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Opened my eyes...
- De eac615 en 10-15-21
De: John Paine
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Inventing the Model of 1911
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- Mikey
- 01-06-20
Good book, but narrator was rough.
The book was great! Very interesting! The narration of the book was rough. He didn't glow very well. Definitely not a smooth listen.
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- Jeff
- 06-17-19
History of MIlitary Weapons
I am a person who likes military history and some of the weapons used in them. I liked the story of the development of the 1911 pistol quite a bit. Some of the maerial covered in the book, I have heard before but it does give a more detailed version of the accounts. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in firearms.
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