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Technological change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945 [electronic resource] / William M. McBride.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technologyPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000.Description: xiii, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 359/.00973/09034 21
LOC classification:
  • VA55 .M33 2000eb
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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.
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E-Book Taylor's Library-TU 359/.00973/09034 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) e-book

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-318) and index.

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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