From torpedoes to aviation : Washington Irving Chambers and technological innovation in the new Navy, 1876-1913

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

The career of Washington Irving Chambers spans a formative period in the development of the United States Navy. This work covers Chambers' early naval career, his work at the new Office of Naval Intelligence, his participation in the Greeley Relief Expedition, and a survey for the projected ist...

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Main Author: Stein, Stephen K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, 2007
Subjects:
Chambers, Washington Irving, > 1856-1934.
United States. > Navy > Officers > Biography.
Naval art and science > Technological innovations > United States > History > 19th century.
Naval art and science > Technological innovations > United States > History > 20th century.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.

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