| Description |
xiii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology
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Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-318) and index. |
| 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 Hoover-Roosevelt years -- War and a shifting technological paradigm : fast task forces and "three-plane" warfare -- Castles of steel : technological change and the modern navy. |
| Subject |
United States. Navy -- Officers -- Attitudes.
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United States. Navy. |
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United States. Navy -- Civilian employees -- Attitudes.
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Naval art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States.
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Naval art and science -- Technological innovations. |
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United States. |
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Naval art and science. |
| ISBN |
0801864860 acid-free paper |
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