Volume V – The Role of Science and Industry (1st edition, 1958)

Author: D P Mellor

This volume describes how science and industry played important parts in devising and manufacturing equipment required by Australia–at–arms. The story of a period in which rapid and enduring developments took place in Australia’s scientific organization and manufacturing capacity.

• Contents, Illustrations Maps and Diagrams, and Preface (381.53Kb PDF file)
  Pages i to xi
• Chapter 1 – Between the Wars (1.77Mb PDF file)
  Pages 1 to 26
• Chapter 2 – Mobilising Industry for War (2.05Mb PDF file)
  Pages 27 to 56
• Chapter 3 – The Mobilisation of Science (499.22Kb PDF file)
  Pages 57 to 65
• Chapter 4 – Raw Materials: Steel (1.77Mb PDF file)
  Pages 66 to 90
• Chapter 5 – Raw Materials: Non–Ferrous Metals (1.55Mb PDF file)
  Pages 91 to 113
• Chapter 6 – Raw Materials: Chemical Industry (2.21Mb PDF file)
  Pages 114 to 144
• Chapter 7 – Standards and Standardisation (1.38Mb PDF file)
  Pages 145 to 161
• Chapter 8 – Machine Tools (934.2Kb PDF file)
  Pages 162 to 175
• Chapter 9 – Manpower: Technical and Scientific (1.88Mb PDF file)
  Pages 176 to 200
• Chapter 10 – Fuel and Power (1.86Mb PDF file)
  Pages 201 to 226
• Chapter 11 – Guns (1.45Mb PDF file)
  Pages 227 to 245
• Chapter 12 – Optical Munitions (2.61Mb PDF file)
  Pages 246 to 281
• Chapter 13 – Torpedoes and Mines (1.31Mb PDF file)
  Pages 282 to 300
• Chapter 14 – Armoured Fighting Vehicles (1.72Mb PDF file)
  Pages 301 to 322
• Chapter 15 – Small Arms and Machine–Guns (712.07Kb PDF file)
  Pages 323 to 332
• Chapter 16 – Ammunition and Explosives (2.47Mb PDF file)
  Pages 333 to 367
• Chapter 17 – Chemical Warfare (1.09Mb PDF file)
  Pages 368 to 380
• Chapter 18 – The Aircraft Industry (2.9Mb PDF file)
  Pages 381 to 422
• Chapter 19 – Radar (2.23Mb PDF file)
  Pages 423 to 452
• Chapter 20 – The Building and Repair of Ships (2.12Mb PDF file)
  Pages 453 to 480
• Chapter 21 – Communications (2.53Mb PDF file)
  Pages 481 to 511
• Chapter 22 – Meteorology (1.29Mb PDF file)
  Pages 512 to 530
• Chapter 23 – Camouflage, Civil Defence and Mapping (1.52Mb PDF file)
  Pages 531 to 549
• Chapter 24 – Tropic Proofing: The Battle Against Moisture and Moulds (1.74Mb PDF file)
  Pages 550 to 572
• Chapter 25 – Food (2.78Mb PDF file)
  Pages 573 to 611
• Chapter 26 – Vitamins, Drugs and Other Fine Chemicals (1.79Mb PDF file)
  Pages 612 to 637
• Chapter 27 – Inventions (1.19Mb PDF file)
  Pages 638 to 655
• Chapter 28 – Operational Research (1.31Mb PDF file)
  Pages 656 to 672
• Chapter 29 – The Ten Years After the War (2.46Mb PDF file)
  Pages 673 to 706
• Index (3.19Mb PDF file)
  Pages 707 to 738