Naval History: The Sixth Symposium of the U.S. Naval Academy.

We explore the effects of human capital on workers during the latter nineteenth century by examining the U.S. Navy. Naval officers belonged either to a regular or an engineer corps and had tasks assigned for their specialized training. We compile education and career data for officers from Naval Academy and navy registers for the years 1858 to 1907. Wage premia for “engineer-skilled” officers deteriorated over their careers; more traditionally skilled officers enjoyed higher gains in earnings and more frequent promotions. This compelled those with engineering skills to leave the service early, hindering the navy's capacity to further technologically develop.

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Integrating Diversity and Understanding the Other at the U.S. Naval Academy

Anthropology and the United States Military ◽

10.1057/9781403982179_8 ◽

2003 ◽

pp. 135-146 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Clementine Fujimura

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Naval Academy ◽

The U.S

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Albert Abraham Michelson, 1852 - 1931

Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society ◽

10.1098/rsbm.1932.0006 ◽

1932 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 18-25

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

High School ◽

San Francisco ◽

The United States ◽

Applied Science ◽

Naval Academy ◽

Physical Laboratory ◽

History Of ◽

Nautical Almanac ◽

The U.S

Albert Abraham Michelson was born on December 19, 1852, at Strelno in Posen, now restored to Poland. When he was two years old, he was taken by his parents, Samuel Michelson and Rosalie (Przlubska), to the United States, and, after some fifteen years spent in Virgina City, Nevada, where his brother Charles was born, San Francisco became their home. There his sister Miriam, the author, was born, and the boy attended the high school. He was given, in unusual circumstances, an appointment in the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, and after graduating in 1873 he became a midshipman in the U.S. Navy for two years and was afterwards appointed instructor in physics and chemistry in the Naval Academy in 1875, holding the appointment until 1879. His next year was spent in the Nautical Almanac Office in Washington, and then he studied for two years at the College of France, and at Heidelberg and Berlin. In 1882 he became Professor of Physics in the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, Ohio. After seven years he went as Professor of Physics to Clark University, Worcester, Mass., and remained there until 1892. He was then appointed Professor at the head of the Ryerson Physical Laboratory, Chicago ; this appointment he held until shortly before his death, which occurred on May 9, 1931. He married Miss Edna Stanton of Lake Forest, Illinois, in 1899, and they had a son and two daughters. This in brief contains the history of his official appointments : how he filled the various posts is another matter.

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