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Book Synopsis Industrializing American Shipbuilding by : William H. Thiesen
Download or read book Industrializing American Shipbuilding written by William H. Thiesen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 19th century, the shipbuilding industry in America was both art and craft, one based on tradition, instinct, hand tools, and handmade ship models. Even as mechanization was introduced, the trade supported a system of apprenticeship, master builders, and family dynasties, and aesthetics remained the basis for design. Spanning the transition from wood to iron shipbuilding in America, Thiesen's history tells how practical and nontheoretical methods of shipbuilding began to be discarded by the 1880s in favor of technical and scientific methods. Perceiving that British warships were superior to its own, the United States Navy set out to adopt British design principles and methods. American shipbuilders wanted only to build better warships, but embracing British practices exposed them to new methods and technologies that aided in the transformation of American shipbuilding into an engineering-based industry. American shipbuilders soon improvised ways to turn U.S. shipyards into state-of-the-art facilities and, by the early 20th century, they forged ahead of the British in construction and production methods. The history of shipbuilding in America is a story of culture dictating technology. Thiesen describes the trans-Atlantic exchange of technical information that took place during this era and the role of the U.S. Navy in that transfer. He also profiles the lives of individual shipbuilders. Their stories will inspire enthusiasts of ships, shipbuilding, and shipbuilding technology, as well as historians and students of maritime history and the history of technology.
Book Synopsis Report of the Commission on American Shipbuilding by : United States. Commission on American Shipbuilding
Download or read book Report of the Commission on American Shipbuilding written by United States. Commission on American Shipbuilding and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Shipbuilders written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Commission on American Shipbuilding by : U.S. Commission on American Shipbuilding
Download or read book Report of the Commission on American Shipbuilding written by U.S. Commission on American Shipbuilding and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Commission on American Shipbuilding, Volume III, Annexes IA-IE. by : United States. Commission on American Shipbuilding
Download or read book Report of the Commission on American Shipbuilding, Volume III, Annexes IA-IE. written by United States. Commission on American Shipbuilding and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Commission on American Shipbuilding by : United States. Commission on American Shipbuilding
Download or read book Report of the Commission on American Shipbuilding written by United States. Commission on American Shipbuilding and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report and recommendations on the shipbuilding industry in the USA - covers shipbuilding costs and prices, factors governing competitiveness, employment and wages, subsidies, etc. References and statistical tables.
Book Synopsis Warship Builders by : Thomas Heinrich
Download or read book Warship Builders written by Thomas Heinrich and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.S. naval shipbuilding industry from the early 1920s to the end of World War II, when American shipyards produced the world's largest fleet that helped defeat the Axis powers in all corners of the globe. A colossal endeavor that absorbed billions and employed virtual armies of skilled workers, naval construction mobilized the nation's leading industrial enterprises in the shipbuilding, engineering, and steel industries to deliver warships whose technical complexity dwarfed that of any other weapons platform. Based on systematic comparisons with British, Japanese, and German naval construction, Thomas Heinrich pinpoints the distinct features of American shipbuilding methods, technology development, and management practices that enabled U.S. yards to vastly outproduce their foreign counterparts. Throughout the book, comparative analyses reveal differences and similarities in American, British, Japanese, and German naval construction. Heinrich shows that U.S. and German shipyards introduced electric arc welding and prefabrication methods to a far greater extent than their British and Japanese counterparts between the wars, laying the groundwork for their impressive production records in World War II. While the American and Japanese navies relied heavily on government-owned navy yards, the British and German navies had most of their combatants built in corporately-owned yards, contradicting the widespread notion that only U.S. industrial mobilization depended on private enterprise. Lastly, the U.S. government's investments into shipbuilding facilities in both private and government-owned shipyards dwarfed the sums British, Japanese, and German counterparts expended. This enabled American builders to deliver a vast fleet that played a pivotal role in global naval combat.
Book Synopsis The U.S. Shipbuilding Industrial Base by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Projection Forces Subcommittee
Download or read book The U.S. Shipbuilding Industrial Base written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Projection Forces Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis National Security Assessment of the U.S. Shipbuilding and Repair Industry by :
Download or read book National Security Assessment of the U.S. Shipbuilding and Repair Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on International Trade Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :260 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis U.S. Shipbuilding Industries and the Effect of Foreign Subsidies by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on International Trade
Download or read book U.S. Shipbuilding Industries and the Effect of Foreign Subsidies written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on International Trade and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report by : Commission on American Shipbuilding
Download or read book Report written by Commission on American Shipbuilding and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Government Policy in Aid of American Shipbuilding by : Warren Daub Renninger
Download or read book Government Policy in Aid of American Shipbuilding written by Warren Daub Renninger and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Preservation Requirements for the U.S. Shipbuilding Mobilization Base by : Douglas G. Keller
Download or read book The Preservation Requirements for the U.S. Shipbuilding Mobilization Base written by Douglas G. Keller and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Commission on American Shipbuilding by : United States. Commission on American Shipbuilding
Download or read book Report of the Commission on American Shipbuilding written by United States. Commission on American Shipbuilding and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ships for the Seven Seas by : Thomas Heinrich
Download or read book Ships for the Seven Seas written by Thomas Heinrich and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas R. Heinrich explores American shipbuilding from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware Valley. Winner of the North American Society for Oceanic History's John Lyman Book Award Originally published in 1996. Sustained by a skilled work force and the Pennsylvania iron and steel industry, Philadelphia shipbuilders negotiated the transition from wooden to iron hull construction earlier and far more easily that most other builders. Between the Civil War and World War I, Philadelphia emerged as the vital center of American shipbuilding, constructing a wide variety of vessel types such as passenger liners, freighters, battleships, and cruisers. In Ships for the Seven Seas, Thomas R. Heinrich explores this complex industry from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware Valley. He describes entrepreneurial strategies and industrial change that facilitated the rise of major shipbuilding firms; how naval architecture, marine engineering, and craft skills evolved as iron and steel overtook wood as the basic construction material; and how changes in domestic and international trade and the rise of the American steel navy helped generate vessel contracts for local builders. Heinrich also examines the formation of the military-industrial complex in the context of naval contracting. Contributing to current debates in business history, Ships for the Seven Seas explains how proprietary ownership and batch production strategies enabled late nineteenth-century builders to supply volatile markets with custom-built steamships. But large-scale naval construction in the 1920s eroded production flexibility, Heinrich argues, and since then, ill-conceived merchant marine policies and naval contracting procedures have brought about a structural crisis in American shipbuilding and the demise of the venerable Philadelphia shipyards.
Book Synopsis Ships for Victory by : Frederic Chapin Lane
Download or read book Ships for Victory written by Frederic Chapin Lane and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-09-21 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of America's intensive shipbuilding programme during World War II, this explores the development of revolutionary construction methods and the recruitment, training, housing and union activities of the workers.
Book Synopsis Essex Shipbuilding by : Courtney Ellis Peckham
Download or read book Essex Shipbuilding written by Courtney Ellis Peckham and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three centuries, shipbuilding flourished in Essex, a small village wrapped around a shallow tidal estuary that flows into Ipswich Bay. From sturdy little Chebacco boats to the tough but graceful fishing schooners that plied the Grand Banks, Essex vessels became known throughout the maritime world as swift and strong fishermen, and Essex shipbuilding became synonymous with craftsmanship of the highest order. More than four thousand ships slid down the ways destined for ports such as Gloucester, Boston, and New York. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, the industry had vanished and this extraordinary chapter in American maritime history was closed. Essex Shipbuilding recalls an era when dozens of vessels in different stages of construction lined the Essex River and the shipyard gangs worked six days a week, year-round, in any weather. Featuring the photograph collection of Dana A. Story, Essex Shipbuilding illustrates the firms of A.D. Story and Tarr & James, who built the famous racing schooners Mayflower, Columbia, and Gertrude L. Thebaud, and the high-lining fishermen Elsie and Adventure. Essex Shipbuilding also depicts these vessels at sea-fishing, racing, or pursuing more unusual work, from Arctic exploration to naval service in both world wars to rumrunning during Prohibition.
