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Traces the modern research and development center from its dual origin when David Taylor and George Melville brought science and technology to the emerging steam-driven steel fleet, through a full century of modernization and several reorganizations. Details the constant work to transform vision into reality, and to keep innovation flowing from cutting-edge science and technology into the Navy's ships and submarines.
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- PublisherGovernment Printing Office
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0160494427
- ISBN 13 9780160494420
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages689
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