Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945

by William M. McBride

Book Overview

Winner, Engineer-Historian Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Navies have always been technologically sophisticated, from the ancient world's trireme galleys and the Age of Sail's ships-of-the-line to the dreadnoughts of World War I and today's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. Yet each large technical innovation has met with resistance and even hostility from those officers who, adhering to a familiar...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801864860
• ISBN13: 9780801864865
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher