The Pursuit of Power. Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
272 Chapter Eight idle much of the time, because the demands of the Royal Navy did not suffice to keep such an installation busy ...
Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884–1914 273 mained generally satisfied with what the arsenal could supply and avoided contrac ...
(^274) Chapter Eight example, who became chief naval designer in 1885, had worked at Armstrong’s for a two-year spell immediatel ...
Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884–1914^275 The scale of the program was officially justified by proclamation of a “two-power ...
(^276) Chapter Eight pulling in the same direction as the special interest of private arms makers and the steel and shipbuilding ...
Military-lindustrial Interaction, 1884–1914 277 in office from 1904 to 1910. He reacted to demands for economy by reforming pers ...
278 Chapter Eight sage of bigger and bigger naval bills. Each naval building program, in turn, opened the path for further techn ...
Military-lndustrial Interaction, 1884–1914 279 new century, the Admiralty even began to ease the tribulations that had always be ...
280 Chapter Eight ment. Sometimes more specific requirements were set forth, e.g., with respect to all-round fire from turrets w ...
Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884–1914 281 in Manila Bay, under calm conditions, and at Santiago Bay in a rougher sea, prove ...
Technology Takes Command The photograph on the left shows H.M.S. Dreadnought, the speedy, heavy-gunned battleship that altered t ...
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284 Chapter Eight Torpedo ranges, meanwhile, spurted upward,^40 and improved torpedo-carrying submarines made them far more of a ...
Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884–1914 285 establish an appropriate path through the water after being dropped from the air ...
286 Chapter Eight support the naval race had its shady side. Outright bribery and cor ruption played a lesser role than half-tr ...
Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884–1914 287 Table 1. Authorized Expenditures (£ million) almost stable price levels. Clearly, ...
288 Chapter Eight Navy in some important technical development. Yet if borrowing to cover excess costs went too far, interest pa ...
Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884–1914 289 ronment. Special relationships with procurement officials and with technically in ...
290 Chapter Eight 1888, for example, responding to urgent solicitation from the Admi ralty to bid on a contract for armor plate ...
Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884–1914 291 ralty on a quasi-public basis. That is to say, considerations of the politi cal ...
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