From torpedoes to aviation : Washington Irving Chambers and technological innovation in the new Navy, 1876-1913 / Stephen K. Stein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stein, Stephen K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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.

United States. Navy--Officers--Biography.

United States.

Chambers, Washington Irving, 1856-1934.

Chambers, Washington Irving.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The central figure in the modernization of the U.S. Navy. The career of Washington Irving Chambers spans a formative period in the development of the United States Navy: He entered the Naval Academy in the doldrum years of obsolete, often rotting ships, and left after he had helped like-minded officers convince Congress and the public of the need to adopt a new naval strategy built around a fleet of technologically advanced battleships. He also laid the groundwork for naval aviation and the important role it would play in the modern navy. This work covers Chambers's e

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 the 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p [235]-255) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8105-8

OCLC:

183297609