Author: United States. Navy Department. Bureau of OrdnancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ordnance, Naval
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
General Description of Torpedo Directors, United States Navy
Author: United States. Navy Department. Bureau of OrdnancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ordnance, Naval
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Torpedo-directors, U.S. Navy
Author: United States. Bureau of Ordnance (Navy Department )Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Torpedoes
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Torpedoes United States Navy
Author: Torpedo-directors
Author: Naval War College (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Torpedo tubes
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Building the Mosquito Fleet
Author: Richard V. SimpsonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738505084
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
In 1877, the U.S. Navy purchased the fast steam yacht Stiletto from the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island, for "automobile" torpedo experiments in Narragansett Bay. The submarine service was in its infancy, and interest in the self-propelled torpedo as an undersea weapon flourished. Herreshoff's fast, steam-powered boats were the first of the delivery platforms accepted by the U.S. Navy Department for experiments at the Newport Naval Torpedo Station and service during the Spanish-American War. Dating from the Civil War, the torpedo station on Goat Island in Newport Harbor was the first torpedo armory in the United States, specializing in research, development, and manufacture. Building the Mosquito Fleet: The U.S. Navy's First Torpedo Boats traces the important and often dramatic history of the involvement between the U.S. Navy and the Herreshoff brothers' marine yards over a period of more than thirty years. It is a story of enterprise, naval development, and marine manufacturing during a time of experimentation and evolution. Included are dramatic stories of the men who built and tested these dangerous new vessels. This fascinating volume preserves under one cover a concise history of the torpedo boats built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. It describes design and construction innovations introduced by the Herreshoffs and traces the events that led the major navies of the world to take notice of the Herreshoffs' work.
General Information Series
Author: United States. Office of Naval IntelligencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Torpedo
Author: Katherine C. EpsteinPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674727401
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
When President Eisenhower referred to the “military–industrial complex” in his 1961 Farewell Address, he summed up in a phrase the merger of government and industry that dominated the Cold War United States. In this bold reappraisal, Katherine Epstein uncovers the origins of the military–industrial complex in the decades preceding World War I, as the United States and Great Britain struggled to perfect a crucial new weapon: the self-propelled torpedo. Torpedoes epitomized the intersection of geopolitics, globalization, and industrialization at the turn of the twentieth century. They threatened to revolutionize naval warfare by upending the delicate balance among the world’s naval powers. They were bought and sold in a global marketplace, and they were cutting-edge industrial technologies. Building them, however, required substantial capital investments and close collaboration among scientists, engineers, businessmen, and naval officers. To address these formidable challenges, the U.S. and British navies created a new procurement paradigm: instead of buying finished armaments from the private sector or developing them from scratch at public expense, they began to invest in private-sector research and development. The inventions emerging from torpedo R&D sparked legal battles over intellectual property rights that reshaped national security law. Blending military, legal, and business history with the history of science and technology, Torpedo recasts the role of naval power in the run-up to World War I and exposes how national security can clash with property rights in the modern era.
Fire Control Equipment
Author: United States. Navy Department. Bureau of OrdnancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire control (Naval gunnery)
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Torpedoman's Mate 1 & C
Author: United States. Bureau of Naval PersonnelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Torpedoes
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Torpedoes
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Torpedoes
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description