'Royal Navy and the introduction of the screw propeller, 1837-1847' in S Fisher (ed), Innovation in Shipping and Trade

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Deals with the approach of the Admiralty to the introduction of new technology into warship design, notably here the screw propeller, challenging established view that it hampered developments by demonstrating 'the errors that earlier studies have fallen into from relying upon one sided and inadequate sources'. Has sections: 'Introduction - the Royal Navy and steam - unthinking opposition or cautious progress?'; 'The Admiralty, the Surveyor's Department and the steam warship'; 'The paddle wheel warship and contemporary tactics'; 'The screw propeller'; ''Archimedes', the beginning of naval and mercantile interest'; 'Brunel, 'The Great Britain' and the Admiralty';