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Author : Wilbur Rice Van Auken
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Total Pages : 72 pages
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Download or read book Notes on a Half Century of United States Naval Ordnance, 1880-1930 written by Wilbur Rice Van Auken and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 380 pages
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Download or read book 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, by A. B. Christman written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 334 pages
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Download or read book 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 written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert B. Christman
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Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book Sailors, Scientists, and Rockets written by Albert B. Christman and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 494 pages
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Author : James P. Rife
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160872488
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (724 download)
Download or read book The sound of freedom: Naval Weapons Technology at Dahlgren, Virginia 1918-2006 written by James P. Rife and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2006 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : David A. Mindell
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801877741
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Download or read book Between Human and Machine written by David A. Mindell and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Author : James P. Rife
Publisher : Department of the Navy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Sound of Freedom written by James P. Rife and published by Department of the Navy. This book was released on 2006 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Albert B. Christman
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Total Pages : 338 pages
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Author : Myron J. Smith
Publisher : Scholarly Title
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Total Pages : 736 pages
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Total Pages : 866 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Wildenberg
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682473007
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)
Download or read book All the Factors of Victory written by Thomas Wildenberg and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Katherine C. Epstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022683123X
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Analog Superpowers written by Katherine C. Epstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping history that spans law, international affairs, and top-secret technology to unmask the tension between intellectual property rights and national security. At the beginning of the twentieth century, two British inventors, Arthur Pollen and Harold Isherwood, became fascinated by a major military question: how to aim the big guns of battleships. These warships—of enormous geopolitical import before the advent of intercontinental missiles or drones—had to shoot in poor light and choppy seas at distant moving targets, conditions that impeded accurate gunfire. Seeing the need to account for a plethora of variables, Pollen and Isherwood built an integrated system for gathering data, calculating predictions, and transmitting the results to the gunners. At the heart of their invention was the most advanced analog computer of the day, a technological breakthrough that anticipated the famous Norden bombsight of World War II, the inertial guidance systems of nuclear missiles, and the networked “smart” systems that dominate combat today. Recognizing the value of Pollen and Isherwood’s invention, the British Royal Navy and the United States Navy pirated it, one after the other. When the inventors sued, both the British and US governments invoked secrecy, citing national security concerns. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Analog Superpowers analyzes these and related legal battles over naval technology, exploring how national defense tested the two countries’ commitment to individual rights and the free market. Katherine C. Epstein deftly sets out Pollen’s and Isherwood’s pioneering achievements, the patent questions raised, the geopolitical rivalry between Britain and the United States, and the legal precedents each country developed to control military tools built by private contractors. Epstein’s account reveals that long before the US national security state sought to restrict information about atomic energy, it was already embroiled in another contest between innovation and secrecy. The America portrayed in this sweeping and accessible history isn’t yet a global hegemon but a rising superpower ready to acquire foreign technology by fair means or foul—much as it accuses China of doing today.
Author : Roland Irvin Curtin
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Total Pages : 508 pages
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Author : James Edward Sutton
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Total Pages : 1332 pages
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Author : Kenneth Warren
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973766
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Bethlehem Steel written by Kenneth Warren and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2008-01-17 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 19th century, rails from Bethlehem Steel helped build the United States into the world's foremost economy. During the 1890s, Bethlehem became America's leading supplier of heavy armaments, and by 1914, it had pioneered new methods of structural steel manufacture that transformed urban skylines. Demand for its war materials during World War I provided the finance for Bethlehem to become the world's second-largest steel maker. As late as 1974, the company achieved record earnings of $342 million. But in the 1980s and 1990s, through wildly fluctuating times, losses outweighed gains, and Bethlehem struggled to downsize and reinvest in newer technologies. By 2001, in financial collapse, it reluctantly filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Two years later, International Steel Group acquired the company for $1.5 billion.In Bethlehem Steel, Kenneth Warren presents an original and compelling history of a leading American company, examining the numerous factors contributing to the growth of this titan and those that eventually felled it—along with many of its competitors in the U.S. steel industry.Warren considers the investment failures, indecision and slowness to abandon or restructure outdated "integrated" plants plaguing what had become an insular, inward-looking management group. Meanwhile competition increased from more economical "mini mills" at home and from new, technologically superior plants overseas, which drove world prices down, causing huge flows of imported steel into the United States.Bethlehem Steel provides a fascinating case study in the transformation of a major industry from one of American dominance to one where America struggled to survive.
Author : A B Christman
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612513182
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Target Hiroshima written by A B Christman and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
