Chambers, Washington Irving, 1856-1934
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Alfred T. Mahan letter to Washington I. Chambers, 1892 Jul 27
Letter from Alfred T. Mahan, Newport, RI, July 27, 1892, to Lieutenant Washington I. Chambers, USN, regarding the concept of education at the Naval War College.
Letters received, 1899 Jan 25-Sep 9
Letters received from Secretary of the Navy John D. Long, Holden A. Evans, Philip R. Alger, Washington Irving Chambers, R.D. Tindale, regarding naval orders, letter of recommendation, electric primers, signal shapes for torpedo practice, receipt of torpedo books, torpedo experiments, and Mark III short torpedo.
Notebook, NWC lecture notes and ordnance testing, 1892 Sept-1893 Sep 21
Notebook belonging to Newton A. McCully containing lectures from his time as an NWC student and recordings of testing at the Naval Ordnance Proving Ground at Indian Head, Maryland.
Pages 1-33 consist of McCully’s notes from NWC lectures, 1892 Sep-Oct, includes those by A.T. Mahan and C.H. Stockton and cover a wide range of topics such as naval strategy, tactics, gunnery, naval history, electricity, steam power, and hygiene.
Pages 34 to the end of the volume are "memorandum of work done at the Naval Ordnance Proving Ground at Indian Head Md, beginning Nov 1 1892-Sep 21, 1893.