1st Edition
Science, Utility and British Naval Technology, 1793–1815 Samuel Bentham and the Royal Dockyards
Preface; Introduction; 1. State provision for naval technology; 2. Utilitarianism and Bentham’s beliefs; 3. Science and dockyard initiatives; 4. The construction of experimental vessels; 5. Armament and naval defence; 6. Dockyard operations and logistics; 7. Proposals for Portsmouth dockyard; 8. The challenges of civil engineering; 9. Mechanical engineering; 10. Machine tools and mass production; 11. The metal mill and metallurgy; 12. The reform of industrial culture; 13. Conflict and control; 14. Technological change and dockyard performance; Bibliography
Biography
Roger Morriss was a curator at the National Maritime Museum in London between 1979 and 1995. From 1997 he taught maritime and naval history at the University of Exeter and at the Greenwich Maritime Institute, University of Greenwich. Between 2000 and 2013, he was General Editor of the Navy Records Society. He has published eight other books on naval history.
