Technological change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945
McBride, William M.
Technological change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945 [electronic resource] / William M. McBride. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000. - xiii, 336 p. : ill. - Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology . - Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology. .
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
United States. Navy --Officers--Attitudes.
United States. Navy --Civilian employees--Attitudes.
Naval art and science--Technological innovations--United States.
Electronic books.
VA55 / .M33 2000eb
359/.00973/09034
Technological change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945 [electronic resource] / William M. McBride. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000. - xiii, 336 p. : ill. - Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology . - Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology. .
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
United States. Navy --Officers--Attitudes.
United States. Navy --Civilian employees--Attitudes.
Naval art and science--Technological innovations--United States.
Electronic books.
VA55 / .M33 2000eb
359/.00973/09034