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Author Stein, Stephen K

Title From torpedoes to aviation : Washington Irving Chambers and technological innovation in the new Navy, 1876-1913 / Stephen K. Stein
Published Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 255 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index
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Subject Chambers, Washington Irving, 1856-1934.
SUBJECT Chambers, Washington Irving, 1856-1934 fast
Subject United States. Navy -- Officers -- Biography
SUBJECT United States. Navy fast
Subject Naval art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Naval art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States -- History -- 20th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Marine & Naval.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
Armed Forces -- Officers
Naval art and science -- Technological innovations
United States
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817381059
0817381058