Titel
Raise Heaven And Earth / The story of Martin Marietta People and their Pioneering Achievements
Schrijver
Harwood, William B.
Taal
Engels
ISBN
9780671749989
Uitgever
Simon & Schuster 1993
Prijs
€ 19,50
Bijzonderheden
In NIEUWSTAAT; gebonden met omslag; 656pp
Meer info
Raise Heaven and Earth is the fascinating story of Martin Marietta Corporation, one of the largest and most successful industrial corporations in the United States. In a broader sense, this is also a penetrating insight into the birth of a vital American industry and the diverse technologies it spawned. It speaks of milestone events and developments that helped shape this century and prepare us for the next.
Raise Heaven and Earth recalls those with the vision. intellect. and dedication to confront a wide range of national imperatives in defense, space exploration, telecommunications. information management, and energy and to act on them in inventive ways. They built huge machines capable of escaping Earth's gravity and micro-instruments that see through darkness or look back to the birth of the universe itself. Their story spans some eighty years, from the days of bamboo-and-silk aircraft to World War II bombers, fighters, and seaplanes to the space boosters, satellites, and computers that make possible intercontinental communications as well as interplanetary exploration.
Much of Raise Heaven and Earth is based on interviews with the people who actually participated in the events described, and many of their anecdotes are published here for the first time. Author Bill Harwood, himself a veteran of much of this history, portrays the events and circumstances of aviation's heady pioneering days, from the giant Clipper flying boats across the Pacific to "Rosie the Riveter" and her industrial heirs whose patriotism empowered Allied victories from World War II to Desert Storm.
Here, too, are remembrances of the frustrations, triumphs, and lessons learned from humankind's first leaps beyond our atmosphere as well as the ups and downs of doing business - the brush with bankruptcy in the postwar years, the merger that formed a billiondollar multi-industry giant, the "PacMan" defense against a hostile takeover attempt, the rapid recovery in its aftermath, and the 1993 combination with GE Aerospace that created a new Martin Marietta Corporation, the nation's premier aerospace/electronics company.
Raise Heaven and Earth recalls those with the vision. intellect. and dedication to confront a wide range of national imperatives in defense, space exploration, telecommunications. information management, and energy and to act on them in inventive ways. They built huge machines capable of escaping Earth's gravity and micro-instruments that see through darkness or look back to the birth of the universe itself. Their story spans some eighty years, from the days of bamboo-and-silk aircraft to World War II bombers, fighters, and seaplanes to the space boosters, satellites, and computers that make possible intercontinental communications as well as interplanetary exploration.
Much of Raise Heaven and Earth is based on interviews with the people who actually participated in the events described, and many of their anecdotes are published here for the first time. Author Bill Harwood, himself a veteran of much of this history, portrays the events and circumstances of aviation's heady pioneering days, from the giant Clipper flying boats across the Pacific to "Rosie the Riveter" and her industrial heirs whose patriotism empowered Allied victories from World War II to Desert Storm.
Here, too, are remembrances of the frustrations, triumphs, and lessons learned from humankind's first leaps beyond our atmosphere as well as the ups and downs of doing business - the brush with bankruptcy in the postwar years, the merger that formed a billiondollar multi-industry giant, the "PacMan" defense against a hostile takeover attempt, the rapid recovery in its aftermath, and the 1993 combination with GE Aerospace that created a new Martin Marietta Corporation, the nation's premier aerospace/electronics company.
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