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Civil War High Tech: Excavating the Hunley and Monitor

This video was recorded at MIT World: One Host Fits All. In the last few years, archaeologists have recovered two of the Civil War's most ingenious inventions: the Union ironclad warship Monitor and the Confederate submarine Hunley. In this symposium panelists discuss the newest technology projects that have brought these inventions to light from the sea depths, and what they can teach about technology and the Civil War.... Show More

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Material Type:: Presentation
Date Added to MERLOT:: February 10, 2015
Date Modified in MERLOT:: May 28, 2015
Author:: Merritt Roe Smith, History Faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Maria Jacobsen, Warren Lasch Conservation Center
David A. Mindell, MIT, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, (STS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Brendan Foley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Submitter:: The Open Education Consortium
Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
Technical Format:: Video

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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States