Author

Briggs, m.

Title

Innovation and the Mid-Victorian Royal Navy: The case of the Whitehead torpedo

In

The Mariner’s Mirror

Imprint

vol. 88, no. 4, 37561, pp. 447-455

Description

Accession No.1072

Abstract

How military institutions innovate has become a subject of interest to historians and students of organizations alike. The Royal Navy's adoption of the Whitehead torpedo provides a particularly good case study of military innovation in peacetime and one that sheds much light on the mid-Victorian Admiralty's attitude to technical developments.

Related entries

Inventions

• The Whitehead Torpedo (c. 1866 - )

People

• Whitehead, Robert (1823 - 1905)