TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolters,Timothy S.
TI  - Information at Sea: Shipboard Command and Control in the U. S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa
T2  - Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series
SN  - 9781421410845
AV  - V283 .W55 2013 
U1  - 359.3/3041097309041 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - United States.-Navy-Communication systems-History
KW  - Command and control systems-United States-History
KW  - Warships-United States-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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ER  -