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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000

1 online resource (xiii, 336 p.) : ill

ISBN 0801864860 (acid-free paper)

ISBN 0801872855

Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-318) and index

The postbellum naval profession : from discord to amalgamation -- Competing for control : line officers, engineers, and the technological exemplar of the battleship paradigm -- Refining the technological ideal : the Simsian uproar, engineer bashing, and the all-big-gun battleship -- Technological trajectory : geostrategic design criteria, turboelectric propulsion, and naval-industrial relations -- Anomalous technologies of the great war : airplanes, submarines, and the professional status quo -- Controlling aviation after the World War : the 1924 special board and the technological ceiling for aviation -- Disarmament, depression, and politics : technological momentum and the unstable dynamics of the HooverRoosevelt years -- War and a shifting technological paradigm : fast task forces and "three-plane" warfare -- Castles of steel : technological change and the modern navy.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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