Technological change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
c2000.
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| Series: | Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology.
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Table of Contents:
- The postbellum naval profession : from discord to amalgamation
- Competing for control : line officers, engineers, and the technological exemplar of the battleship paradigm
- Refining the technological ideal : the Simsian uproar, engineer bashing, and the all-big-gun battleship
- Technological trajectory : geostrategic design criteria, turboelectric propulsion, and naval-industrial relations
- Anomalous technologies of the great war : airplanes, submarines, and the professional status quo
- Controlling aviation after the World War : the 1924 special board and the technological ceiling for aviation
- Disarmament, depression, and politics : technological momentum and the unstable dynamics of the HooverRoosevelt years
- War and a shifting technological paradigm : fast task forces and "three-plane" warfare
- Castles of steel : technological change and the modern navy.