Should Fisher receive credit for the aircraft carrier?

Should Jackie Fisher be credited with the aircraft carrier?

No. His later air-power ideas included balloon bombers and battleships of the sky, complicating claims that he drove carrier development.

Fisher's enthusiasm for technological change does not settle who deserves credit for aircraft-carrier development. His later air-power ideas included balloon bombers and imagined battleships of the sky. Those interests differ from a commitment to the aircraft carrier.