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Tony Stark has been battling bad guys and protecting innocent civilians since he first donned his mechanized armor in the 1963 debut of Iron Man in Marvel Comics. Over the years, Starks suit has allowed him to smash through walls, fly through the air like a human jet, control a bewildering array of weaponry by thought alone, and perform an uncountable number of other fantastic feats. The man who showed us all what it would take to become Batman probes whether scienceand humankindis up to the task of inventing a real-life Iron Man. 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. Applying scientific principles and an incredibly creative mind to the question, Zehr looks at how Iron Mans suit allows Stark to become a superhero. He discusses the mind-boggling and body-straining feats Iron Man performed to defeat villains like Crimson Dynamo, Iron Monger, and Whiplash and how such acts would play out in the real world. Zehr finds that science is nearing the point where a suit like Iron Mans could be made. But superherodom is not just about technology. Zehr also discusses our own phys

Who reads Inventing Iron Man : the Possibility of a Human Machine?

Author

E. Paul Zehr; Warren Ellis

Publisher

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781421402260

Category

science

Subjects

Engineering, History, Fiction

Rating

3.8 / 5 (43 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13