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Inventing iron man : the possibility of a human machine / E. Paul Zehr.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011Description: xvii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1421402262
  • 9781421402260
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 629.8 22
LOC classification:
  • TJ211 .Z42 2011
Contents:
Origins of the iron knight: bionics, robotic armor, and anthropomorphic suits -- Building the body with biology: when the man of metal needs to muscle in -- Accessing the brain of the armored avenger: can we connect the cranium to a computer -- Multitasking and the metal man: how much can Iron Man's mind manage? -- Softening up a superhero: why the man with a suit of iron could get a jelly belly -- Brain drain: will Tony's gray matter give way? -- Trials and tribulations of the tin man: what happens when the human machine breaks down -- Visions of the vitruvian man: is invention really only one part inspiration? -- Deal or no deal? Could Iron Man exist?
Summary: "E. Paul Zehr physically deconstructs Iron Man to find out how we could use modern-day technology to create a suit of armor similar to the one Stark made"--Jacket.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 629.8 ZEH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A505724B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index.

Origins of the iron knight: bionics, robotic armor, and anthropomorphic suits -- Building the body with biology: when the man of metal needs to muscle in -- Accessing the brain of the armored avenger: can we connect the cranium to a computer -- Multitasking and the metal man: how much can Iron Man's mind manage? -- Softening up a superhero: why the man with a suit of iron could get a jelly belly -- Brain drain: will Tony's gray matter give way? -- Trials and tribulations of the tin man: what happens when the human machine breaks down -- Visions of the vitruvian man: is invention really only one part inspiration? -- Deal or no deal? Could Iron Man exist?

"E. Paul Zehr physically deconstructs Iron Man to find out how we could use modern-day technology to create a suit of armor similar to the one Stark made"--Jacket.

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