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From torpedoes to aviation Washington Irving Chambers and technological innovation in the new Navy, 1876-1913 /

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Main Author: Stein, Stephen K.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2007.
Subjects:
Chambers, Washington Irving, > 1856-1934.
United States. > Navy > Officers > Biography.
Naval art and science > Technological innovations > United States > History > 19th century.
Naval art and science > Technological innovations > United States > History > 20th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Naval Academy
  • Early cruises
  • The Greely relief expedition
  • The Nicaraguan survey
  • The Office of Naval Intelligence
  • The New York Navy Yard
  • The Petrel and the Atlanta
  • The Naval War College
  • The Minneapolis and the Bureau of Ordnance
  • Policing an empire
  • Torpedoes, dreadnoughts, and the General Board
  • The Caribbean and the Bureau of Ordnance
  • The beginnings of naval aviation
  • Building naval aviation
  • Retired.

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