The Development Of The Torpedo
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The Development Of The Torpedo
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Author : Peter Bethell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
The Development Of The Torpedo written by Peter Bethell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with Torpedoes categories.
Torpedo
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Author : Roger Branfill-Cook
language : en
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-27
Torpedo written by Roger Branfill-Cook and has been published by Seaforth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-27 with History categories.
An encyclopedic study of the ship-killer par excellence—from its development to post-World War II usage. “A well-written book, lavishly illustrated.” —International Journal of Maritime History The torpedo was the greatest single game-changer in the history of naval warfare. For the first time it allowed a small, cheap torpedo-firing vessel—and by extension a small, minor navy—to threaten the largest and most powerful warships afloat.The traditional concept of seapower, based on huge fleets of expensive capital ships, required radical rethinking because of this important naval weapon. This book is a broad-ranging international history of the weapon, tracing not only its origins and technical progress down to the present day, but also its massive impact on all subsequent naval wars. Torpedo contains much new technical information that has come to light over the past thirty years and covers all of the improved capabilities of the weapon. Heavily illustrated with photos and technical drawings this is a book no enthusiast or historian can afford to miss. “The torpedo—one of the most fearsome weapons ever created by man—is well worth its own history.” —Forum Navale
Hellions Of The Deep
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Author : Robert Gannon
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 1996
Hellions Of The Deep written by Robert Gannon and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
Ultimately, World War II was the first war won by technology, but within only a few weeks after the war began, the U.S. Navy realized its torpedo program was a dismal failure. Submarine skippers reported that most of their torpedoes were either missing the targets or failing to explode if they did hit. The United States had to work fast if it expected to compete with the Japanese Long Lance, the biggest and fastest torpedo in the world, and Germany's electric and sonar models. Hellions of the Deep tells the dramatic story of how Navy planners threw aside the careful procedures of peacetime science and initiated &"radical research&": gathering together the nation's best scientists and engineers in huge research centers and giving them freedom of experimentation to create sophisticated weaponry with a single goal&—winning the war. The largest center for torpedo work was a requisitioned gymnasium at Harvard University, where the most famous names in science worked with the best graduate students from all around the country at the business of war. They had to produce tangible weapons, to consider production and supply tactics, to take orders from the military, and, in many cases, also to teach the military how to use the weapons they developed. World War II grew into a chess match played by scientists and physicists, and it became the only war in history to be won by weapons invented during the conflict. For this book, Robert Gannon conducted numerous interviews over a twenty-year period with scientists, engineers, physicists, submarine skippers, and Navy bureaucrats, all involved in the development of the advanced weapons technology that won the war. While the search for new weapons was deadly serious, stretching imagination and resourcefulness to the limit each day, the need was obvious: American ships were being blown up daily just outside the Boston harbor. These oral histories reveal that, in retrospect, surprising even to those who went through it, the search for the &"hellions of the deep&" was, for many, the most exciting period of their lives.
Torpedo War And Submarine Explosions
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Author : Robert Fulton
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-04
Torpedo War And Submarine Explosions written by Robert Fulton and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-04 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Torpedo War, and Submarine Explosions" by Robert Fulton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Development Of The Lake Type Submarine Torpedo Boats
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Author : Lake Torpedo Boat Company
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 191?
The Development Of The Lake Type Submarine Torpedo Boats written by Lake Torpedo Boat Company and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 191? with Submarines (Ships) categories.
The Submarine Torpedo Boat Its Characteristics And Modern Development
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Author : Allen Hoar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1916
The Submarine Torpedo Boat Its Characteristics And Modern Development written by Allen Hoar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1916 with Submarines (Ships) categories.
Torpedo
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Author : Katherine C. Epstein
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-02
Torpedo written by Katherine C. Epstein and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-02 with History categories.
When President Eisenhower referred to the “military–industrial complex” in his 1961 Farewell Address, he summed up in a phrase the merger of government and industry that dominated the Cold War United States. In this bold reappraisal, Katherine Epstein uncovers the origins of the military–industrial complex in the decades preceding World War I, as the United States and Great Britain struggled to perfect a crucial new weapon: the self-propelled torpedo. Torpedoes epitomized the intersection of geopolitics, globalization, and industrialization at the turn of the twentieth century. They threatened to revolutionize naval warfare by upending the delicate balance among the world’s naval powers. They were bought and sold in a global marketplace, and they were cutting-edge industrial technologies. Building them, however, required substantial capital investments and close collaboration among scientists, engineers, businessmen, and naval officers. To address these formidable challenges, the U.S. and British navies created a new procurement paradigm: instead of buying finished armaments from the private sector or developing them from scratch at public expense, they began to invest in private-sector research and development. The inventions emerging from torpedo R&D sparked legal battles over intellectual property rights that reshaped national security law. Blending military, legal, and business history with the history of science and technology, Torpedo recasts the role of naval power in the run-up to World War I and exposes how national security can clash with property rights in the modern era.
Foil Saber And P E Fencing Skills Safety Operations And Responsibilities
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Author : Maxwell R. Garret
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 1994
Foil Saber And P E Fencing Skills Safety Operations And Responsibilities written by Maxwell R. Garret and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fencing categories.
Building The Mosquito Fleet
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Author : Richard V. Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2001
Building The Mosquito Fleet written by Richard V. Simpson and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
In 1877, the U.S. Navy purchased the fast steam yacht Stiletto from the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island, for "automobile" torpedo experiments in Narragansett Bay. The submarine service was in its infancy, and interest in the self-propelled torpedo as an undersea weapon flourished. Herreshoff's fast, steam-powered boats were the first of the delivery platforms accepted by the U.S. Navy Department for experiments at the Newport Naval Torpedo Station and service during the Spanish-American War. Dating from the Civil War, the torpedo station on Goat Island in Newport Harbor was the first torpedo armory in the United States, specializing in research, development, and manufacture. Building the Mosquito Fleet: The U.S. Navy's First Torpedo Boats traces the important and often dramatic history of the involvement between the U.S. Navy and the Herreshoff brothers' marine yards over a period of more than thirty years. It is a story of enterprise, naval development, and marine manufacturing during a time of experimentation and evolution. Included are dramatic stories of the men who built and tested these dangerous new vessels. This fascinating volume preserves under one cover a concise history of the torpedo boats built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. It describes design and construction innovations introduced by the Herreshoffs and traces the events that led the major navies of the world to take notice of the Herreshoffs' work.
History Of The Development Of Torpedo Aircraft
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1919
History Of The Development Of Torpedo Aircraft written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1919 with Airplanes, Military categories.