Author: Albert Hoyt TaylorPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The First Twenty-five Years of the Naval Research Laboratory
Author: Albert Hoyt TaylorThe First Twenty-five Years of the Naval Research Laboratory
Author: Albert Hoyt TaylorAn Ocean in Common
Author: Gary E. WeirPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1585441147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Through two victorious world conflicts and a Cold War, the U.S. Navy and American ocean scientists drew ever closer, converting an early marriage of necessity into a relationship of astonishing achievement. Beginning in 1919, Gary Weir's An Ocean in Common traces the first forty-two years of their joint quest to understand each other and the deep ocean. Early in the twentieth century, American naval officers questioned the tactical and strategic significance of applied ocean science, demonstrating the gap between this kind of knowledge and that deemed critical to naval warfare. At the same time, scientists studying the ocean labored in their inadequately funded, discreet disciplines, seemingly content to keep naval warfare at arm's length. German U-boat success in World War I changed these views fundamentally, bringing ocean science insights to an increasing number of naval objectives. Driven primarily by anti-submarine priorities, the physics, chemistry, and geology of the ocean, more than its biology, became the early focus of American ocean studies. The World War II experience solidified the Navy's relationship with ocean scientists, and the years after 1945 found the American military investing heavily in both applied and basic research. Today, oceanography is a permanent resident on the bridge of American fighting ships and the Navy continues to provide much of the impetus and funding for fundamental research, in both naval and civilian laboratories. In An Ocean in Common Gary Weir focuses on the compelling motives and carefully engineered course that brought scientists and naval officers together, across a considerable cultural divide, to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of one another and the world ocean. Weir details how this alliance laid the powerful multidisciplinary foundation for long-range ocean communication and surveillance, modern submarine warfare, deep submergence, and the emergence of oceanography and ocean engineering as independent and vital fields of study.
Silent Strategists
Author: Manley R. IrwinPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761861025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Few historians have looked beyond the Teapot Dome scandal and examined the naval policies of President Warren Harding and his secretary of navy, Edwin Denby. Both sponsored policies that nourished the nation’s industrial infrastructure. Their legacy would yield a dividend of growth, production, employment, and ultimately, national security. In this revised edition, Professor Manley R. Irwin brings forth an innovative approach to researching these policies, papers, and archives, adding additional research from new documents which expand, enhance, and complement the first edition. The book argues that Harding and Denby exercised unusual foresight in preparing the navy for a war against Japan. Both individuals promulgated structural changes in the department and adopted a set of management tools that would redound to the navy in its prosecution of its Pacific offensive in World War II. Irwin's thorough investigation and addition of new evidence from original documents provides invaluable details and insights into the lasting legacy of the Harding administration.
Technical Information Pilot
Author: Pushing the Horizon
Author: Ivan AmatoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval research
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A History of the Acoustics Division of the Naval Research Laboratory
Author: Fred Tudor ErskinePublisher:
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Category : Naval research
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
To See the Unseen
Author: Andrew J. ButricaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Evolution of Naval Radio-electronics and Contributions of the Naval Research Laboratory
Author: Louis A. GebhardPublisher:
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Category : Electronics in military engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Target Hiroshima
Author: A B ChristmanPublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612513182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
For better or worse, Navy captain William S. "Deak" Parsons made the atomic bomb happen. As ordnance chief and associate director at Los Alamos, Parsons turned the scientists' nuclear creation into a practical weapon. As weaponeer, he completed the assembly of "Little Boy" during the flight to Hiroshima. As bomb commander, he approved the release of the bomb that forever changed the world. Yet over the past fifty years only fragments of his story have appeared, in part because of his own self-effacement and the nation's demand for secrecy. Based on recently declassified Manhattan Project documents, including Parsons' logs and other untapped sources, the book offers an unvarnished account of this unsung hero and his involvement in some of the greatest scientific advances of the twentieth century.