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Science, Utility and British Naval Technology, 1793-1815 - Samuel Bentham and the Royal Dockyards (Hardcover)
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Science, Utility and British Naval Technology, 1793-1815 - Samuel Bentham and the Royal Dockyards (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
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During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the technology
employed by the British navy changed not just the material
resources of the British navy but the culture and performance of
the royal dockyards. This book examines the role of the Inspector
General of Naval Works, an Admiralty office occupied by Samuel
Bentham between 1796 and 1807, which initiated a range of changes
in dockyard technology by the construction of experimental vessels,
the introduction of non-recoil armament, the reconstruction of
Portsmouth yard, and the introduction of steam-powered engines to
pump water, drive mass-production machinery and reprocess copper
sheathing. While primarily about the technology, this book also
examines the complementary changes in the industrial culture of the
dockyards. For it was that change in culture which permitted the
dockyards at the end of the Wars to maintain a fleet of
unprecedented size and engage in warfare both with the United
States of America and with Napoleonic Europe.
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