'War and economic development. Government and the optical instruments industry in Britain, 1914-18' in J M Winter (ed), War and Economic Development. Essays in Memory of David Joslin
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- Author(s) MacLeod, Roy, & Kay MacLeod
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1975
- Pages pp165-203
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
Topics:
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
- Name Government procurement
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Explores the 'institutional processes' and the interaction between science, technology and industrial development by which the optical industry [defined by production of optical glass and instruments] became engaged in and adapted to wartime product development and manufacture; the role of state intervention in this, notably the Ministry of Munitions and the DSIR, covering finance, research, education, technical assistance, etc; the notable responsiveness of the industry to changed circumstances, contrasting with the supposed deficiencies of the industry's entrepreneurship prewar. Has sections: 'Optical glass and the optical industry'; 'Optical industry at war'; 'Ministry of Munitions, Chance Brothers and optical glass supply, June 1915-18'; 'Ministry of Munitions and the optical industry - economic assistance'; 'Ministry of Munitions and the optical industry - technical assistance'; 'State intervention, technical education and scientific research'