From torpedoes to aviation

Stein, Stephen K.

From torpedoes to aviation Washington Irving Chambers and technological innovation in the new Navy, 1876-1913 / [electronic resource] : Stephen K. Stein. - Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2007. - viii, 255 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p [235]-255) and index.

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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Chambers, Washington Irving, 1856-1934.


United States. Navy --Officers--Biography.


Naval art and science--Technological innovations--History--United States--19th century.
Naval art and science--Technological innovations--History--United States--20th century.


Electronic books.

V63.C39 / .S74 2007eb

359.0092 B