Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945 /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McBride, William M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Colección:Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States. > Navy > Civilian employees > Attitudes.
United States. > Navy > Officers > Attitudes.
Naval art and science > Technological innovations > United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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