Commercial Success and Controversy
Scott received payments from the Admiralty for his ideas totalling £10,000 equivalent to over £500,000 in 2005's money. More significantly, officers of the day were allowed to commercialize their inventions as a consequence of which Scott was able to have a royalties agreement with Vickers which resulted in aggregate payments to him of some £200,000 equivalent to over £5,000,000 in 2005's money. Financial independence allowed Scott to indulge his intellectual arrogance and judgemental nature which combined with his flair for self-publicity, formed the basis of his frictional relationship with the Navy authorities. However, Jackie Fisher, creator of the radical Dreadnought concept and the dominant influence on naval reform in the years leading up to the First World War, recognized Scott's merits, kept his career on track and was instrumental in promoting and introducing many of his ideas.
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