From torpedoes to aviation : Washington Irving Chambers and technological innovation in the new Navy, 1876-1913 / Stephen K. Stein.
Material type: TextPublication details: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 255 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- 9780817381059
- 0817381058
- Chambers, Washington Irving, 1856-1934
- United States. Navy -- Officers -- Biography
- Chambers, Washington Irving, 1856-1934
- United States. Navy
- Naval art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Naval art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Art et science navals -- Innovations -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Art et science navals -- Innovations -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Marine & Naval
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science
- Armed Forces -- Officers
- Naval art and science -- Technological innovations
- United States
- 1800-1999
- 359.0092 B 22
- V63.C39 .S74 2007eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index.
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.
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 isthmian canal through Nicaragua.
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