Название: Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865--1945
Автор: William M. McBride
Издательство: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 0801864860
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 352
Размер: 10,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Navies have always been technologically sophisticated, from the ancient world's trireme galleys and the Age of Sail's ships-of-the-line to the dreadnoughts of World War I and today's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. Yet each large technical innovation has met with resistance and even hostility from those officers who, adhering to a familiar warrior ethos, have grown used to a certain style of fighting. In Technological Change and the United States Navy, William M. McBride examines how the navy dealt with technological change?from the end of the Civil War through the "age of the battleship"?as technology became more complex and the nation assumed a global role. Although steam engines generally made their mark in the maritime world by 1865, for example, and proved useful to the Union riverine navy during the Civil War, a backlash within the service later developed against both steam engines and the engineers who ran them.