McBride, William M. <br/><br/>
Technological change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945  [electronic resource] / 
William M. McBride. 
 - Baltimore :  Johns Hopkins University Press,  c2000. 
 - xiii, 336 p. :  ill. 
 - Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology .
 - Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-318) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. Navy --Officers--Attitudes.<br/>United States. Navy --Civilian employees--Attitudes.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Naval art and science--Technological innovations--United States.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>VA55  / .M33 2000 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>359/.00973/09034