| Accession Number | RCDIG1070217 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Digitised Collection |
| Record type | Volume |
| Item count | 1 |
| Object type | Book |
| Maker |
Mellor, David Paver |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Volume V – The Role of Science and Industry (1st edition, 1958)
Second World War Official Histories
- Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 4 – Civil
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Description
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 (pages i - xi )
- Chapter 1 – Between the Wars (pages 1 - 26 )
- Chapter 2 – Mobilising Industry for War (pages 27 - 56 )
- Chapter 3 – The Mobilisation of Science (pages 57 - 65 )
- Chapter 4 – Raw Materials: Steel (pages 66 - 90 )
- Chapter 5 – Raw Materials: Non–Ferrous Metals (pages 91 - 113 )
- Chapter 6 – Raw Materials: Chemical Industry (pages 114 - 144 )
- Chapter 7 – Standards and Standardisation (pages 145 - 161 )
- Chapter 8 – Machine Tools (pages 162 - 175 )
- Chapter 9 – Manpower: Technical and Scientific (pages 176 - 200 )
- Chapter 10 – Fuel and Power (pages 201 - 226 )
- Chapter 11 – Guns (pages 227 - 245 )
- Chapter 12 – Optical Munitions (pages 246 - 281 )
- Chapter 13 – Torpedoes and Mines (pages 282 - 300 )
- Chapter 14 – Armoured Fighting Vehicles (pages 301 - 322 )
- Chapter 15 – Small Arms and Machine–Guns (pages 323 - 332 )
- Chapter 16 – Ammunition and Explosives (pages 333 - 367 )
- Chapter 17 – Chemical Warfare (pages 368 - 380 )
- Chapter 18 – The Aircraft Industry (pages 381 - 422 )
- Chapter 19 – Radar (pages 423 - 452 )
- Chapter 20 – The Building and Repair of Ships (pages 453 - 480 )
- Chapter 21 – Communications (pages 481 - 511 )
- Chapter 22 – Meteorology (pages 512 - 530 )
- Chapter 23 – Camouflage, Civil Defence and Mapping (pages 531 - 549 )
- Chapter 24 – Tropic Proofing: The Battle Against Moisture and Moulds (pages 550 - 572 )
- Chapter 25 – Food (pages 573 - 611 )
- Chapter 26 – Vitamins, Drugs and Other Fine Chemicals (pages 612 - 637 )
- Chapter 27 – Inventions (pages 638 - 655 )
- Chapter 28 – Operational Research (pages 656 - 672 )
- Chapter 29 – The Ten Years After the War (pages 673 - 706 )
- Index (pages 707 - 738 )