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Making Jet Engines in World War II - Hermione Giffard

Making Jet Engines in World War II

Britain, Germany, and the United States
Buch | Hardcover
336 Seiten
2016
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-38859-5 (ISBN)
CHF 67,95 inkl. MwSt
Our stories of industrial innovation tend to focus on individual initiative and lone breakthroughs. With Making Jet Engines, Hermione Giffard uses the case of the development of jet engines during World War II to offer a different way of understanding technological innovation, revealing the complicated mix of factors that go into any decision to pursue an innovative, and therefore risky technology. Giffard compares the approaches of Germany, Britain, and the United States, showing that each approached jet engines in different ways because of its own particular war aims and industrial expertise. Germany, which produced more jet engines than the others, did so largely as replacements for more expensive piston engines. Britain, on the other hand, produced relatively few engines but, by shifting emphasis to design rather than production, found itself at war's end holding an unrivaled range of designs. The US emphasis on development, meanwhile, built an institutional basis for postwar production.
Taken together, Giffard's accounts make a powerful case for a more nuanced understanding of technological innovation, one that takes into account the influence of the many organizational factors that play a part in the journey from idea to finished product.

Hermione Giffard is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands.

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 16 x 23 mm
Gewicht 624 g
Themenwelt Natur / Technik Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Technikgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Technik Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10 0-226-38859-X / 022638859X
ISBN-13 978-0-226-38859-5 / 9780226388595
Zustand Neuware
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