Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipbuilding industry
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Strengthening America's Shipbuilding Industry
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipbuilding industry
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The U.S. Shipbuilding Industry
Author: Clinton H. WhitehurstPublisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Shipbuilding Technology and Education
Author: Division on Engineering and Physical SciencesPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030905382X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
The U.S. shipbuilding industry now confronts grave challenges in providing essential support of national objectives. With recent emphasis on renewal of the U.S. naval fleet, followed by the defense builddown, U.S. shipbuilders have fallen far behind in commercial ship construction, and face powerful new competition from abroad. This book examines ways to reestablish the U.S. industry, to provide a technology base and R&D infrastructure sustaining both commercial and military goals. Comparing U.S. and foreign shipbuilders in four technological areas, the authors find that U.S. builders lag most severely in business process technologies, and in technologies of new products and materials. New advances in system technologies, such as simulation, are also needed, as are continuing developments in shipyard production technologies. The report identifies roles that various government agencies, academia, and, especially, industry itself must play for the U.S. shipbuilding industry to attempt a turnaround.
Report of the Commission on American Shipbuilding
Author: United States. Commission on American ShipbuildingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Report and recommendations on the shipbuilding industry in the USA - covers shipbuilding costs and prices, factors governing competitiveness, employment and wages, subsidies, etc. References and statistical tables.
Industrializing American Shipbuilding
Author: William H. ThiesenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780813029405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Throughout the 19th century, the shipbuilding industry in America was both art and craft, one based on tradition, instinct, hand tools, and handmade ship models. Even as mechanization was introduced, the trade supported a system of apprenticeship, master builders, and family dynasties, and aesthetics remained the basis for design. Spanning the transition from wood to iron shipbuilding in America, Thiesen's history tells how practical and nontheoretical methods of shipbuilding began to be discarded by the 1880s in favor of technical and scientific methods. Perceiving that British warships were superior to its own, the United States Navy set out to adopt British design principles and methods. American shipbuilders wanted only to build better warships, but embracing British practices exposed them to new methods and technologies that aided in the transformation of American shipbuilding into an engineering-based industry. American shipbuilders soon improvised ways to turn U.S. shipyards into state-of-the-art facilities and, by the early 20th century, they forged ahead of the British in construction and production methods. The history of shipbuilding in America is a story of culture dictating technology. Thiesen describes the trans-Atlantic exchange of technical information that took place during this era and the role of the U.S. Navy in that transfer. He also profiles the lives of individual shipbuilders. Their stories will inspire enthusiasts of ships, shipbuilding, and shipbuilding technology, as well as historians and students of maritime history and the history of technology.
U.S. Shipping and Shipbuilding
Author: Peter T. TarpgaardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Report of the Commission on American Shipbuilding
Author: United States. Commission on American ShipbuildingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Report of the Commission on American Shipbuilding
Author: U.S. Commission on American ShipbuildingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Outlook for the U.S. Shipbuilding and Repair Industry, 1995
Author: The U.S. Shipbuilding Industrial Base
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Projection Forces SubcommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description