The Optical Munitions Industry in Great Britain, 1888–1923

Stephen C. Sambrook

The story of the optical munitions industry embraces not only entrepreneurship and invention, but also aspects of military technology and international politics. 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.

"'Historians of technology, business and war will all find interesting lessons in this book ... [a] meticulously researched and well-written account of Britain's optical munitions industry.'"

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

CONTENTS
pp v-vi

Preface and Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

List of Figures and Tables
pp ix-x

List of Technical Terms
pp xi-xii

Introduction
pp 1-8

1 - The Emergence of the Industry, 1888–99
pp 9-34

2 - The Growth in Importance from the Boer War to 1906
pp 35-58

3 - Expansion and Consolidation, 1907–14
pp 59-84

4 - The Impact of War, August 1914 to mid-1915
pp 85-106

5 - Industrial Mobilization: The Ministry of Munitions and its Relationship with the Industry
pp 107-132

6 - The Industry's Wartime, 1915–18
pp 133-158

7 - Industrial Demobilization and Implosion, 1919
pp 159-180

8 - Adaption and Survival, 1919–23
pp 181-204

Conclusion
pp 205-212

Notes
pp 213-240

Works Cited
pp 241-248

Index
pp 249-256

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