very geometric, very clean, very lacking in human dimensions as it is john erickson's imagination. that is how the story has come down. i got interested in other parts of the story. and, you know, in a funny way, thinking about it in the last couple of weeks, the last really major scholarly statement on the monitor i think i had been 1933 when james finney baxter wrote his classic "the intruction of the ironclad warfare." brodie in 1941 -- actually forgetting -- "power in the age of steam," i think. and there had been interesting forays through the '70s. jim delgado who is around today had written some nice stuff. bill still had written a couple of pieces on the captains and the builders of the monitor. a lot of teasers, but very little kind of reevaluation of what was this ship, what did it mean in the history of technology, in the field of the history of technology, which i'm notionally in, there had been almost nothing. and that was a field that kind of had merged in the end -- after world war ii and the cold war to think about, technology and culture. and it seemed like there w

virginia," however you want to talk about it, best-known story in naval history, most famous battle, john erickson, the hero, you've have heard it all. and i began looking a little bit at the documents saying what's interesting here about technology? and this is a typical representation of the battle, actually a very good one. another more traditional one is the one on the u.s. postal service stamp from 1995. and the battle is almost always described as the fight between ironclads. it is a battle between machines. and many of these famous presentations are notable for the complete lack of people. very much a mechanical warfare. this is, again, this is actually from erickson's contributions to the centennial exhibition, but one of the sort of iconic drawings of the ship. very geometric, very clean, very lacking in human dimensions as it is john ericsson's imagination. and that was how the story had come down. and i got interested in other parts of the story. i got interested in other parts of the story. and, you know, in a funny way, thinking about it in the last couple of weeks, the last really ma

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