Monitor Builders
Author : William Norwood Still (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Armored vessels
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Author : William Norwood Still (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Armored vessels
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Author : Ian Buxton
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 2008-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1844157199
In the history of naval warfare probably no type of ship has provided more firepower per ton than the monitor indeed they were little more than a huge gun mounting fitted on a simple, self-propelled raft. Designed and built rapidly to fulfil an urgent need for heavy shore-bombardment during World War I, they were top secret in conception, and largely forgotten when the short-lived requirement was over. Nevertheless, they were important ships, which played a significant role in many Great War campaigns and drove many of the advances in long-range gunnery later applied to the battle fleet. Indeed, their value was rediscovered during the Second World War when a final class was built. Monitors were largely ignored by naval historians until Ian Buxton produced the first edition of this book in 1978. Although published privately, this became an established classic and copies of the first edition are now almost unobtainable, so this new edition will be welcomed by many. It has been completely revised, extended and redesigned to a generous large format which allows material deleted from the original edition for lack of space to be restored.
Author : Stephen Denison Peet
Publisher : Chicago : [s.n.]
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Mound-builders
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Author : Craig Wallin
Publisher : HeadStart Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,18 MB
Release : 2002-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780933239371
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release : 2000-11
Category :
ISBN :
Indianapolis Monthly is the Circle City’s essential chronicle and guide, an indispensable authority on what’s new and what’s news. Through coverage of politics, crime, dining, style, business, sports, and arts and entertainment, each issue offers compelling narrative stories and lively, urbane coverage of Indy’s cultural landscape.
Author : William H. Roberts
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 22,33 MB
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801887512
Honorable Mention, Science and Technology category, John Lyman Book Awards, North American Society for Oceanic History Civil War Ironclads supplies the first comprehensive study of one of the most ambitious programs in the history of naval shipbuilding. In constructing its new fleet of ironclads, William H. Roberts explains, the U.S. Navy faced the enormous engineering challenges of a largely experimental technology. In addition, it had to manage a ship acquisition program of unprecedented size and complexity. To meet these challenges, the Navy established a "project office" that was virtually independent of the existing administrative system. The office spearheaded efforts to broaden the naval industrial base and develop a marine fleet of ironclads by granting shipbuilding contracts to inland firms. Under the intense pressure of a wartime economy, it learned to support its high-technology vessels while incorporating the lessons of combat. But neither the broadened industrial base nor the advanced management system survived the return of peace. Cost overruns, delays, and technical blunders discredited the embryonic project office, while capital starvation and never-ending design changes crippled or ruined almost every major builder of ironclads. When Navy contracts evaporated, so did the shipyards. Contrary to widespread belief, Roberts concludes, the ironclad program set Navy shipbuilding back a generation.
Author : James L. Nelson
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0061857033
At the outbreak of the Civil War, North and South quickly saw the need to develop the latest technology in naval warfare, the ironclad ship. After a year-long scramble to finish first, in a race filled with intrigue and second guessing, blundering and genius, the two ships -- the Monitor and the Merrimack -- after a four-hour battle, ended the three-thousand-year tradition of wooden men-of-war and ushered in "the reign of iron." In the first major work on the subject in thirty-five years, novelist, historian, and tall-ship sailor James L. Nelson, acclaimed author of the Brethren of the Coast trilogy, brilliantly recounts the story of these magnificent ships, the men who built and fought them, and the extraordinary battle that made them legend.
Author : Angelo J. DiBernardo
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Construction industry
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and National Security Subcommittee
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Buildings
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Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher :
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 16,12 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Civil rights
ISBN :