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From torpedoes to aviation; Washington Irving Chambers and technological innovation in the new Navy, 1876-1913.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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From torpedoes to aviation; Washington Irving Chambers and technological innovation in the new Navy, 1876-1913.

Stein, Stephen K.

U. of Alabama Press

2007

255 pages

$39.95

Hardcover

V63

In an era when children at county fairs went on rides in a biplane with an itinerant and not completely respectable pilot, applying aviation to military maneuvers was an exciting idea that was completely untried. Chambers's career went from driving an effort to rework the rotting US naval fleet into technically advanced battleships to torpedo ...

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