The Optical Munitions Industry in Great Britain, 1888–1923

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Stephen C Sambrook

Studies in Business History

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.

Readership

History of Science and Technology, Business History and British History

Contents

Introduction
Part I
1 Emergence of the Industry, 1888–9
2 Growth in Importance, 1899–1906
3 Expansion and Consolidation, 1907–14
Part II
4 Impact of War, August 1914–mid-1915
5 Industrial Mobilization and Image Creation
6 War-Time Performance, mid-1915–1918
Part III
7 Industrial Demobilization and Implosion, 1919
8 Adaption, Survival and Hibernation, 1919–1923
Conclusion

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