The Navy as a Fighting Machine (Classics of Sea Power) - Hardcover

Bradley A. Fiske

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870214373 ISBN 13: 9780870214370

Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 1988

Synopsis

This book sets forth innovative reforms that had a tremendous influence on the new steel navy.

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About the Author:

Rear Admiral <strong>Bradley A. Fiske</strong> (1854 - 1942) was an officer in the United States Navy who was noted as a technical innovator. During his long career, Fiske invented more than a hundred and thirty electrical and mechanical devices, with both Naval and civilian uses, and wrote extensively on technical and professional issues. <em> The New Yorker</em> called him ‘one of the notable naval inventors of all time’.<br><br> One of the earliest to understand the revolutionary possibilities of naval aviation, he wrote a number of books of important effect in gaining a wider understanding of the modern Navy by the public. For inventing the rangefinder, he was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal of The Franklin Institute in 1891.

Synopsis:

Originally published in 1916, with a second edition in 1918. Like others in this series, this is a reprint of a key work of professional naval thought, with some new introductory material. Some of the impressions that Fiske acquired in his long career in the navy are now outdated in the era of nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers. What is amazi

About this edition

• Publisher: Naval Institute Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0870214373
• ISBN 13: 9780870214370
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 387