Class 29 (10/30)
The chemists' war: organizing WWI
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For the conflict: government efforts
For the peace: cooperative and interdisciplinary research
Organizing aeronautics
Private initiative spurs government action
War and its consequences
Basic research
Why committees are important: networking and reporting
Organizing effort
Hale's early initiatives
A wartime creation: the NRC
Challenges, external and internal
Cooperation, coordination, and America at war
| Primary | Secondary |
| National Institute of Health
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (fd. 1915) National Academy of Sciences George Ellery Hale (1868-1938) Woodrow Wilson (pres. 1913-1921) National Research Council (fd. 1916) War Industries Board |
Roger Adams (1889-1971)
bureau approach (USDA) Smithsonian Institution Samuel P. Langley (1834-1906) Naval Consulting Board Robert A. Millikan (1868-1953) Alexis de Tocqueville |
What (or who) drove the assembly of the military-invention complex?
In what respects and for what reasons were the military services
technologically conservative? Technologically innovative?
How did World War I affect the public image of science and scientists?