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Information at Sea

Shipboard Command and Control in the U.S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa

Timothy S. Wolters (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2013
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4214-1026-5 (ISBN)

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The brain of a modern warship is its combat information center (CIC). Data about friendly and enemy forces pour into this nerve center, contributing to command decisions about firing, maneuvering, and coordinating. Timothy S. Wolters has written the first book to investigate the history of the CIC and the many other command and control systems adopted by the U.S. Navy from the Civil War to World War II. What institutional ethos spurred such innovation? Information at Sea tells the fascinating stories of the naval and civilian personnel who developed an array of technologies for managing information at sea, from signal flares and radio to encryption machines and radar. Wolters uses previously untapped archival sources to explore how one of America's most technologically oriented institutions addressed information management before the advent of the digital computer. He argues that the human-machine systems used to coordinate forces were as critical to naval successes in World War II as the ships and commanders more familiar to historians.

Timothy S. Wolters, an engineer-qualified submariner and captain in the United States Navy Reserve, is an assistant professor of history at Iowa State University. He formerly held the Ramsey Chair of Naval Aviation History at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Flags, Flares, and Lights: A World before Wireless
2. Sparks and Arcs: The Navy Adopts Radio
3. War and Peace: Coordinating Naval Forces
4. A Most Complex Problem: Demanding Information
5. Creating the Brain of a Warship: Radar and the CIC
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Essay on Sources
Archives and Manuscript Collections
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.12.2013
Reihe/Serie	Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
Zusatzinfo	16 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Technik
ISBN-10	1-4214-1026-5 / 1421410265
ISBN-13	978-1-4214-1026-5 / 9781421410265
Zustand	Neuware