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Technological change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945

by McBride, William M.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press, (Baltimore :) Physical details: xiii, 336 p. : ill.
Subject(s): United States. -- Navy -- Officers -- Attitudes. | United States. -- Navy -- Civilian employees -- Attitudes. | Naval art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States. | Electronic books.
Year: 2000
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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.

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