this is from world war ii. late world war ii. and it s an advertisement from general electric depicting the air war over europe, which was a pretty brutal and in some ways very monitor-like experience for the crews aboard the b-17s. and you can see the introduction of electronics and electronic technology, the idea is without it everybody s flying all around and it s a big mess and there are these messy people in there. add the electronics and everything s clean and the sun is shining and you have this bright new horizon. very much the idea that john ericsson had about what he called his new system of naval attack. very much the reaction that i ll come to when i close that nathaniel hawthorne had about the battle. and here you see it again in its new form in world war ii. and of course in the last ten years the original book, i talked a little bit about unmanned aircraft now in development. but they ve of course been used a great deal in the last ten years, particularly reall
lastly, i want to talk just a little bit about all the things that have gone on. and there s been a lot of war in the last 20 years, since the first gulf war. and a lot of those same questions that came around the monitor were raised. this is of course not from them but from before. this is from world war ii. late world war ii. and it s an advertisement from general electric depicting the air war over europe, which was a pretty brutal and in some ways very monitor-like experience for the crews aboard the b-17s. and you can see the introduction of electronics and electronic technology, the idea is without it everybody s flying all around and it s a big mess and there are these messy people in there. add the electronics and everything s clean and the sun is shining and you have this bright new horizon. very much the idea that john ericsson had about what he called his new system of naval attack. very much the reaction that i ll come to when you i close that nathaniel hawthorn
i ve got to say i was so excited when our next speaker contacted me and wanted to be a part of what we re doing today. and david mendel has been a friend of the uss monitor for quite some time. and i m so pleased that his book has been reissued with a brand-new name, right up here. we have it in the gift shop. i ve got to admit i was an english literature nerd. and so the fact that he used so much melville and hawthorne in his book just made me so happy. well, david mendel is a historian and engineer. we re not sure when he sleeps either. he is also director of mit s program on technology and science and interdisciplinary department. he is an expert on human machine relationships in broad technical, social, and historical context. now for years he has been combining engineering and historical research into the evolution of humans relationships to machines. his book digital apollo, human and machine and space flight examines computers, and automation in the apollo moon
coffin was awarded the sally hacker prize by the society for the history of technology. before coming to mit, he worked as a research engineer in the deep submergence laboratory where he is now a visiting investigator. maybe we ll find out what he is investigating. he has conducted all kinds of research there and worked on operated on autonomous underwater vehicles for exploring the deepest parts of the ocean and even developed the control system and pilot interface for the woods hole jason vehicle. so the man has done a little bit of everything. monitor, apollo, bronze age shipwrecks, he does it all. today he is going to be telling us about our favorite ironclad. and i just noticed he has a degree in literature. i knew i liked him. and an electrical engineering from yale university, his doctorate in the history of technology from mit. so without further ado, david mendel. [ applause ] thank you. when anna invited me on the program, you know, i asked her if i should give
and the experience of its crew aboard one of the first ironclads. this is about 50 minutes. i ve got to say i was so excited when our next speaker contacted me and wanted to be a part of what we re doing today. and david mendel has been a friend of the uss monitor for quite some time. and i m so pleased that his book has been reissued with a brand-new name, right up here. we have it in the gift shop. i ve got to admit i was an english literature nerd. and so the fact that he used so much melville and hawthorne in his book just made me so happy. well, david mendel is a historian and engineer. we re not sure when he sleeps either. he is also director of mit s program on technology and science and interdisciplinary department. see an expert on human machine relationships in broad technical, social, and historical context. now for years he has been combining engineering and historical research into the evolution of humans relationships to machines. his book digital apollo,