Frontline and Factory: Comparative Perspectives on the Chemical Industry at War, 1914–1924

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Macleod, Roy (Editor), Johnson, Jeffrey Allan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 16
• Subjects: History.; Production management.; Political science.; Chemical engineering.; Economics.; History of Science.; Political Science.; History, general.; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering.; Economic Systems.; Operations Management.

The First World War is often called the ‘chemists’ war’. But few realise precisely how, or the extent to which modern chemistry became a significant factor in the struggle, and would be in turn deeply shaped by it. Gathering momentum at first, by 1916, success in applying scientific knowledge to ‘fr...