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> Perhaps the most revolutionary design change since HMS Dreadnought. Goddamnit, I had work to get done today. Sigh... wikipedia Dreadnought here we go.

• Animats 10y ago
  HMS Dreadnought: all big guns, centralized fire control, heavy armor, steam turbine propulsion. Previous battleships had guns of various sizes sticking out all over the place, aimed by their own gun crews. Being under-powered, they were either sluggish or under-armored. HMS Dreadnought made all those ships obsolete. All later battleships had the same basic features as HMS Dreadnought. Compare a picture of HMS Dreadnought with a USS New Jersey class battleship, the last battleship class. The New Jersey looks like a bigger, better Dreadnought, with similar lines and turrets. The iPhone did that to mobile phones. (After WWI, all the major naval powers were building Dreadnought-type battleships. The US Navy hit a snag. The patent holder on steam turbines got an injunction stopping Navy turbine production. This resulted in the frantic enactment of 28 USC 1498, which exempts the U.S. Government from patent injunctions. Because it was a rush job, 28 USC 1498 is a headache for inventors. It's not part of patent law. It's not part of procurement law. Claims under 28 USC 1498 are handled outside of both systems and never paid without litigation.)
• rodgerd 10y ago
  When you do, you'll realise what an astonishingly ridiculous comparison it is.