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Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Notes on a Half Century of United States Naval Ordnance, 1880-1930
Author: Wilbur Rice Van AukenPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 72
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History of the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California
Author: History of the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California: Sailors, scientists, and rockets; origins of the Navy rocket program and of the Naval Ordnance Test Station, Inyokern
Author: Sailors, Scientists, and Rockets
Author: Albert B. ChristmanPublisher:
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Category : Ordnance, Naval
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Between Human and Machine
Author: David A. MindellPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801877741
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Today, we associate the relationship between feedback, control, and computing with Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics. But the theoretical and practical foundations for cybernetics, control engineering, and digital computing were laid earlier, between the two world wars. In Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics, David A. Mindell shows how the modern sciences of systems emerged from disparate engineering cultures and their convergence during World War II. Mindell examines four different arenas of control systems research in the United States between the world wars: naval fire control, the Sperry Gyroscope Company, the Bell Telephone Laboratories, and Vannevar Bush's laboratory at MIT. Each of these institutional sites had unique technical problems, organizational imperatives, and working environments, and each fostered a distinct engineering culture. Each also developed technologies to represent the world in a machine. At the beginning of World War II, President Roosevelt established the National Defense Research Committee, one division of which was devoted to control systems. Mindell shows how the NDRC brought together representatives from the four pre-war engineering cultures, and how its projects synthesized conceptions of control, communications, and computing. By the time Wiener articulated his vision, these ideas were already suffusing through engineering. They would profoundly influence the digital world. As a new way to conceptualize the history of computing, this book will be of great interest to historians of science, technology, and culture, as well as computer scientists and theorists. Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics
All the Factors of Victory
Author: Thomas WildenbergPublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1682473007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Adm. Joseph Mason Reeves (1872–1948) took command of the U.S. Navy’s nascent carrier arm during a critical period, transforming it from a small auxiliary command in support of the battle line into a powerful strike force. Until the carrier commanders of World War II proved their mettle, Reeves’s expertise in the use of the aircraft carrier in naval tactics was unequaled. All the Factors of Victory is the first full-length biography of this eminent naval officer.
The Sound of Freedom
Author: James P. RifePublisher: Department of the Navy
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Tells the story of the evolution of the Dahlgren Laboratory from a proof and test facility into a modern research and development center crucial to the technological evolution of the United States Navy.
The sound of freedom: Naval Weapons Technology at Dahlgren, Virginia 1918-2006
Author: James P. RifePublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160872488
Category : Proving grounds
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
This book tells the story of the evolution of the Dahlgren Laboratory from a naval proof and test facility into a modern research and development center crucial to the technological evolution of the U.S. Navy. Combining a close analysis of the technical work that led to the improvements in weapons, bombsights, missiles, and the computers that provided their guidance with a close account of changing management styles, this work recounts many previously classified stories.
Sailors, Scientists, and Rockets
Author: Albert B. ChristmanPublisher:
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Category : Ordnance, Naval
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Professional Journal of the United States Army
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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