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From torpedoes to aviation : Washington Irving Chambers and technological innovation in the new Navy, 1876-1913 / Stephen K. Stein.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stein, Stephen K.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chambers, Washington Irving, 1856-1934.
- Chambers, Washington Irving.
- United States. Navy--Officers--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Navy.
- Naval art and science--Technological innovations--United States--History--19th century.
- Naval art and science.
- Naval art and science--Technological innovations--United States--History--20th century.
- Naval art and science--Technological innovations.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- 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 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
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-247) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780817315641
- 0817315640
- OCLC:
- 73502510
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