Science, Utility and British Naval Technology, 17931815 (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
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Engelska
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388
Utgivningsdatum
2020-10-08
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Routledge
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black and white 1 Illustrations 1 Halftones black and white
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1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
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236 x 155 x 25 mm
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726 g
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1
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52:B&W 6.14 x 9.21in or 234 x 156mm (Royal 8vo) Case Laminate on White w/Gloss Lam
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9780367472290

Science, Utility and British Naval Technology, 17931815

Samuel Bentham and the Royal Dockyards

av Roger Morriss
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During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the technology employed by the British navy changed not just the material resources of the British navy but the culture and performance of the royal dockyards. This book examines the role of the Inspector General of Naval Works, an Admiralty office occupied by Samuel Bentham between 1796 and 1807, which initiated a range of changes in dockyard technology by the construction of experimental vessels, the introduction of non-recoil armament, the reconstruction of Portsmouth yard, and the introduction of steam-powered engines to pump water, drive mass-production machinery and reprocess copper sheathing. While primarily about the technology, this book also examines the complementary changes in the industrial culture of the dockyards. For it was that change in culture which permitted the dockyards at the end of the Wars to maintain a fleet of unprecedented size and engage in warfare both with the United States of America and with Napoleonic Europe.
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Roger Morriss was a curator at the National Maritime Museum in London between 1979 and 1995. From 1997 he taught maritime and naval history at the University of Exeter and at the Greenwich Maritime Institute, University of Greenwich. Between 2000 and 2013, he was General Editor of the Navy Records Society. He has published eight other books on naval history.

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Preface; Introduction; 1. State provision for naval technology; 2. Utilitarianism and Benthams beliefs; 3. Science and dockyard initiatives; 4. The construction of experimental vessels; 5. Armament and naval defence; 6. Dockyard operations and logistics; 7. Proposals for Portsmouth dockyard; 8. The challenges of civil engineering; 9. Mechanical engineering; 10. Machine tools and mass production; 11. The metal mill and metallurgy; 12. The reform of industrial culture; 13. Conflict and control; 14. Technological change and dockyard performance; Bibliography

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