Frontline and Factory Comparative Perspectives on the Chemical Industry at War, 1914-1924
The First World War is often called the ‘chemists’ war’. But few realise precisely how, or the extent to which modern chemistry became a significant factor in the struggle, and would be in turn deeply shaped by it. Gathering momentum at first, by 1916, success in applying scientific knowledge to ‘fr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2006, 2006
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2006 |
| Series: | Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
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Table of Contents:
- Technological Mobilization and Munitions Production: Comparative Perspectives on Germany and Austria
- Mobilization and Industrial Policy: Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals In The French War Effort
- First World War Explosives Manufacture: The British Experience
- Transforming a Village into an Industrial Town: The Royal Prussian Powder Plant in Kirchmöser (Brandenburg)
- Wartime Chemistry in Italy: Industry, the Military, and the Professors
- Munitions, the Military, and Chemistry in Russia
- Technical Expertise and U.S. Mobilization, 1917–18: High Explosives and War Gases
- Operating on Several Fronts: The Trans-National Activities of Royal Dutch/Shell, 1914–1918
- Kuhlmann at War, 1914–1924
- Organizing for Total War: DuPont and Smokeless Powder in World War I
- Science and the Military: The Kaiser Wilhelm Foundation for Military-Technical Science
- Managing Chemical Expertise: The Laboratories of the French Artillery and the Service des Poudres
- The War the Victors Lost: The Dilemmas of Chemical Disarmament, 1919–1926