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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462606003321

Autore

Wolters Timothy S

Titolo

Information at sea : shipboard command and control in the U.S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa / / Timothy S. Wolters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : The Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-4214-1084-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Collana

Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology

Disciplina

359.3/3041097309041

Soggetti

Command and control systems - United States - History

Warships - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Flags, flares, and lights: a world before wireless -- Sparks and arcs: the Navy adopts radio -- War and peace: coordinating naval forces -- A most complex problem: demanding information -- Creating the brain of a warship: radar and the CIC -- Conclusion.