Monday, May 18, 2015

The War's Impact on the Naval Academy-- Part 2

The Board's studies and the changes that followed achieved the goals.  In the ensuing years, the Academy would produce some of the nation's great leaders.  These included not only those who led the Navy, adapted it to changing times and directed it in the great task of world leadership that swiftly followed for the United States in the next century.

They also included some of the nation's famous leaders in engineering, industry, education and science.

Within little more than a decade, Albert A. Michelson, Class of 1873, would conduct the first of his notable experiments on the speed of light at Annapolis.  Returning as a young officer from sea duty to teach, he developed the apparatus and conducted the experiments with midshipmen associates.

----Old B-R'er

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