Article ID: CBB001421387

Naval Architecture, Expertise and Navigating Authority in the British Admiralty, c.1885--1906 (2014)

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Naval architecture and the ship design process provide useful windows into the cultures of authority and expertise at the British Admiralty. Naval architecture was a complex field of theory and practice that underwent a number of changes in the nineteenth century, from the technical to the professional. It was also a highly contested and controversial subject, in which practitioners from the naval service to civilian engineering sought authority. This article provides a survey of naval architecture, authority and expertise, before proceeding to two case studies that reveal important changes to the boundaries of technical expertise in the ship design process in the late Victorian and Edwardian Admiralty.

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Authors & Contributors
Gray, Steven
Morriss, Roger
Andrew, James H.
Leggett, Don
MacLeod, Christine
Smith, Crosbie W.
Journals
Mariner's Mirror
Journal for Maritime Research: Britian, the Sea and Global History
History and Technology
History of Science
Journal of Historical Geography
Technikgeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie
Publishers
Texas A&M University
Ashgate
Ashgate e-Book
Boydell Press
English Heritage
Manchester University Press
Concepts
Ships and shipbuilding
Military technology
Science and war; science and the military
Technology
Sailing ships
Engineering, naval
People
Bentham, Samuel
Catherine II, Empress of Russia
Churchill, Winston
Flinders, Matthew
Maudslay, Henry
Telford, Thomas
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
Europe
France
Germany
Russia
United States
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Navy
United States Navy
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