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.
By:
Stephen C Sambrook
Imprint: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 5
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 521g
ISBN: 9781848933125
ISBN 10: 1848933126
Series: Studies in Business History
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 June 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Further / Higher Education
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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;
Reviews for The Optical Munitions Industry in Great Britain, 1888–1923
'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.' Technology and Culture
