Optical Munitions Industry in Great Britain, 1888-1923
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- Author(s) Sambrook, Stephen C
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2013
- Pages 269pp
- Publisher Pickering & Chatto
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
- Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
- Name Government procurement
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly history based on the writer's doctoral thesis, 'Optical Munitions Industry in Great Britain, 1888 to 1923', Glasgow, 2005. Describes and analyses the origins and growth of the industry from the late 19th century as an example of the successful development of high technology businesses / manufacturing catering for strategically vital functions in military and naval warfare. Products ranged from telescopes to naval gun range finders and submarine periscopes. The chapters are: 'Emergence of the industry, 1888-99'; 'Growth in importance from the Boer War to 1906'; 'Expansion and consolidation, 1907-14'; 'Impact of war, August 1914 to mid 1915'; 'Industrial mobilisation. The Ministry of Munitions and its relationship with the industry'; 'The industry's wartime, 1915-18'; 'Industrial demobilisation and implosion, 1919'; 'Adaption and survival, 1919-23'