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a time of great expansion, technological progress and change, often in defiance of the conservative element of the navy hierarchy. he superintended the design of ships and introduced the water-tube boiler , the triple-screw propulsion system, vertical engines, the floating repair ship, and the "distilling
the design of ships of the "new navy". among the major technical innovations that he helped introduce, often in defiance of the conservative opinion within the naval establishment, were the water-tube boiler , the triple-screw propulsion system, vertical engines, the floating repair ship, and the distilling...
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