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.
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, 1888-99; Chapter 2 The Growth in Importance from the Boer War to 1906; Chapter 3 Expansion and Consolidation, 1907-14; 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 Industry's Wartime, 1915-18; Chapter 7 Industrial Demobilization and Implosion, 1919; Chapter 8 Adaption and Survival, 1919-23; Chapter 9 Conclusion;