Wolters, Timothy S. <br/><br/>
Information at Sea :  Shipboard Command and Control in the U. S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (332 pages) 
 - Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series .
 - Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series .
<br/><br/>Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Flags, Flares, and Lights: A World before Wireless -- 2 Sparks and Arcs: The Navy Adopts Radio -- 3 War and Peace: Coordinating Naval Forces -- 4 A Most Complex Problem: Demanding Information -- 5 Creating the Brain of a Warship: Radar and the CIC -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Archives and Manuscript Collections -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y. 
<br/><br/> He argues that the human-machine systems used to coordinate forces were as critical to naval successes in World War II as the ships and commanders more familiar to historians. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781421410845 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>United States.-Navy-Communication systems-History.<br/>Command and control systems-United States-History.<br/>Warships-United States-History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>V283 .W55 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>359.3/3041097309041