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Ships, Machinery and Mossback
By (Author) Harold Gardiner Bowen
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
509
Hardback
408
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
482g
As Chief of the Bureau of Engineering, as Director of the Naval Research Laboratory, as industrial troubleshooter for Forrestal, Admiral Bowen frequently was forced to fight the "mossbacks" who stubbornly resisted new inventions and techniques. He was instrumental in the development of high-pressure high-temperature steam for ship turbines, diesel