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Free Download Dreadnought: The Ship that Changed the World by Roger Parkinson
English | January 6, 2015 | ISBN: 1780768265 | 320 pages | MOBI | 6.80 Mb
The years leading to World War I were the ‘Age of the Dreadnought’. The monumental battleship design, first introduced by Admiral Fisher to the Royal Navy in 1906, was quickly adopted around the world and led to a new era of naval warfare and policy. In this book, Roger Parkinson provides a re-writing of the naval history of Britain and the other leading naval powers from the 1880s to the early years of World War I. The years before 1914 were characterised by intensifying Anglo-German naval competition, with an often forgotten element beyond Europe in the form of the rapidly developing navies of the United States and Japan. Parkinson shows that, although the advent of the dreadnought was the pivotal turning-point in naval policy, in fact much of the technology that enabled the dreadnought to be launched was a continuity from the pre-dreadnought era. In the annals of the Royal Navy two names will always be linked: those of Admiral Sir John ‘Jacky’ Fisher and the ship he created, HMS Dreadnought.

Free Download David K. Brown – Warrior to Dreadnought: Warship Design and Development 1860-1905
Seaforth Publishing | 2010 | ISBN: 1848320868 | English | 228 pages | PDF | 214.85 MB
In the 50 years that separated Warrior from Dreadnought there occurred a revolution in warship design quite unparalleled in naval history; a period that began with the fully-rigged broadside ironclads and ended with the emergence of the great battleships and battlecruisers that were to fight in the First World War.The author explains how ninetheenth-century designers responded to developments in engine technology, armour protection and armament in their attempts to develop the best possible fighting ships. He details the development of more efficient engines that brought about the demise of the sailing warship, and the competition between armour and armament, with every increase in the power of guns stimulating the development of ever more sophisticated methods of protection. Importantly, he explains that the Victorian Royal Navy, far from being the reactionary body it is so often depicted as, was, in fact, at the forefront of technological change, for example in the employment of torpedoes and the development of countermeasures to them.Full accounts are given of the significant naval events and battles of the period, making the book a fine narrative history as well as a brilliant work of warship reference. D K BROWN was a distinguished naval architect who retired in 1988 as Deputy Chief Naval Architect of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors. He published widely on the subject of warship design and built a reputation as a clear and brilliant commentator on the development of the ships of the Royal Navy. He died in 2008.

Free Download John C. Ferguson – Historic Battleship Texas: The Last Dreadnought
State House Press | 2007 | ISBN: 1933337079 | English | 196 pages | PDF | 82.49 MB
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Free Download John Roberts – The Battleship Dreadnought (Anatomy of the Ship)
Conway Maritime Press | 2001 | ISBN: 085177895X | English | 258 pages | PDF | 151.67 MB
Launched in 1906, HMS Dreadnought was the first ‘all-big-gun’ battleship and as such revolutionised battleship design for more than a generation. She was built at Portsmouth in 14 months, a record which has never been equalled, and when she was launched she was superior in both firepower and speed to anything then afloat. Perhaps even more radical than her design was the proposal to adopt Parsons turbines which at the time had been hardly tested. Though she saw little action during her career, her influence was profound and she gave her name to a class of ship that dominated the high seas for more than a generation.

Free Download Sketch Samples Sketch Dreadnought KONTAKT | 9.05 GB
We are glad to present our next instrument for sampler Kontakt 6. This is a Dreadnought Guitar. For recording we used high quality microphones, piezo pickup system and magnetic pickup. Mics, piezo and magnet levels are controllable after the fact to give maximum sonic flexibility. Sketch Dreadnought Guitar comes with a MIDI Pack. The Midi Pack includes 54 accompaniment styles. You can find a more detailed description in the Sketch Dreadnought Guitar Manual.