Table of Contents: Technological change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McBride, William M.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000.
Series:	Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)
Subjects and Genres:	United States. > Navy > Officers > Attitudes. United States. > Navy > Civilian employees > Attitudes. Naval art and science > Technological innovations > United States.
Online Access:	Publisher description
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Table of 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.