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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 k...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: MacLeod, Roy (Editor ), Johnson, Jeffrey A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edición:1st ed. 2006.
Colección:Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 16
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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