Discovery, innovation, and the Victorian admiralty: paper navigators / Erika Behrisch.
2022
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Title
Discovery, innovation, and the Victorian admiralty: paper navigators / Erika Behrisch.
Author
Behrisch, Erika.
ISBN
9783031067495 (electronic bk.)
3031067495 (electronic bk.)
3031067487
9783031067488
3031067495 (electronic bk.)
3031067487
9783031067488
Publication Details
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-06749-5 doi
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DA88
Dewey Decimal Classification
359.00941
Summary
This book examines the British Admiraltys engagement with science and technological innovation in the nineteenth century. It is a book about people, and gross misunderstanding, about the dreams and disappointments of scientific workers and inventors in relation to the administrators who adjudicated their requests for support, and about the power of paper to escalate arguments, reduce opinions, and frustrate hopes. From instructions for naval surveying to debates about rewards to civilians for inventions, Paper Navigators puts a wide range of primary sources in the context of public debates and explores the British Admiraltys engagement with, decision-making around, and management of questions of value, support, and funding with citizen inventors, the broader public, and their own employees. Concentrating on the Admiraltys private, internal correspondence to explore these themes, it offers a fresh perspective on the Victorian Navy's history of innovation and exploration and is a novel addition to literature on the history of science in the nineteenth century. Erika Behrisch is Professor in the Department of English, Culture, and Communication at the Royal Military College of Canada.
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Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime History.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Triangulating the New: Discovery, Innovation, Bureaucracy
Chapter 2: "A monotonous and arduous service" : Science, Surveying, and Servitude Aboard
Chapter 3: "Considerable Magnetic Disturbance : The Niger Expedition, Science, and Networks of Influence
Chapter 4: En Route with the British Admiraltys Manual of Scientific Enquiry (1849)
Chapter 5: Private Inventions, Public Purse: Innovation and the Admiralty
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Notes in the Margin.
Chapter 2: "A monotonous and arduous service" : Science, Surveying, and Servitude Aboard
Chapter 3: "Considerable Magnetic Disturbance : The Niger Expedition, Science, and Networks of Influence
Chapter 4: En Route with the British Admiraltys Manual of Scientific Enquiry (1849)
Chapter 5: Private Inventions, Public Purse: Innovation and the Admiralty
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Notes in the Margin.