Running counter to the general decline of technological industries in post-Victorian Britain, optical munitions provides an important, previously overlooked, study into the business of manufacturing.
Introduction;
Chapter 1 The Emergence of the Industry, 188899;
Chapter
2 The Growth in Importance from the Boer War to 1906;
Chapter 3 Expansion and
Consolidation, 190714;
Chapter 4 The Impact of War, August 1914 to mid-1915;
Chapter 5 Industrial Mobilization: The Ministry of Munitions and its
Relationship with the Industry;
Chapter 6 The Industrys Wartime, 191518;
Chapter 7 Industrial Demobilization and Implosion, 1919;
Chapter 8 Adaption
and Survival, 191923;
Chapter 9 Conclusion;
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