Science, Utility and British Naval Technology, 1793-1815: Samuel Bentham and the Royal Dockyards

ISBN-13: 9780367562533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 388 str.

Roger Morriss

Opis

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. While primarily about the technology, this book also examines the complementary changes in the industrial culture of the dockyards.

Spis treści

Preface;  Introduction;  1. State provision for naval technology;  2. Utilitarianism and Bentham’s 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

O autorze

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.