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Book/Printed MaterialTropical testing. (Division 16. Report No. 96.) Report series: OEMsr-871; OSRD No. 5010. Research lab: University of Pittsburgh. Report. Digital reproduction from OSRD-NRDC microfilm; also available in print and on microfilm. Description from catalog card image included in microfilmed report. start page 169 ; end page 187- Contributor: United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
- Date: 1945
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Book/Printed MaterialTropical deterioration in optical instruments. (Division 16. Report No. 97.) Report series: OEMsr-871; OSRD No. 5767. Research lab: University of Pennsylvania. Report. Digital reproduction from OSRD-NRDC microfilm; also available in print and on microfilm. Description from catalog card image included in microfilmed report. start page 258 ; end page 284- Contributor: United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
- Date: 1945
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Book/Printed MaterialThe fungus fouling of optical instruments. (Division 16. Report No. 51.) Report series: OEMsr-205; OSRD No. 4118. Research lab: University of Pennsylvania. Report. Digital reproduction from OSRD-NRDC microfilm; also available in print and on microfilm. Description from catalog card image included in microfilmed report. start page 166 ; end page 257- Contributor: United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
- Date: 1944
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Book/Printed MaterialCresatin as a treatment for fungus proofing optical instruments. (Division 16. Report No. 44.) Report series: OEMsr-205; OSRD No. 3803. Research lab: University of Pennsylvania. Report. Digital reproduction from OSRD-NRDC microfilm; also available in print and on microfilm. Description from catalog card image included in microfilmed report. start page 528 ; end page 557- Contributor: United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
- Date: 1944
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Book/Printed MaterialA house for the study of materials under tropical conditions. (Division 16. Report No. 49.) Report series: OEMsr-205; OSRD No. 4048. Research lab: University of Pennsylvania. Report. Digital reproduction from OSRD-NRDC microfilm; also available in print and on microfilm. Description from catalog card image included in microfilmed report. start page 114 ; end page 131- Contributor: United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
- Date: 1944
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ArticleDivision 16 vol. 1 – Optical Instruments Division 16 of the Office of the Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) was assigned to start, arrange and monitor research investigations in the field of optics, including a number of projects developing instrumentation, which were originally initiated by the Instrument Section of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC). Section 16.1 focused on optical instruments. Among the section’s contributions were projects covering improvements in aerial… -
ArticleDivision 16 vol. 4 – Image Forming Infrared Division 16 of the Office of the Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) was assigned to start, arrange and monitor research investigations in the field of optics. The Division’s Section 16.5 and its predecessors looked at land navigation and signaling using ultraviolet and infrared light rather than visible light. To that end, infrared telescopes, allowing vehicle drivers to “see” roads in darkness, were developed and…
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ArticleDivision 16 vol. 3 – Non-Image Forming Infrared Division 16 of the Office of the Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) was assigned to start, arrange and monitor research investigations in the field of optics. The Division’s Section 16.4 looked at the military use of infrared radiation and the development of equipment that non-visual cues to signal targets. In the process, section-supervised projects looked at near infrared sources and both near and far…
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Book/Printed MaterialMethods of prevention of fungus fouling of optical instruments in the Canal Zone. (Division 16. Report No. 46.) Report series: OEMsr-205; OSRD No. 3952. Research lab: University of Pennsylvania. Report. Digital reproduction from OSRD-NRDC microfilm; also available in print and on microfilm. Description from catalog card image included in microfilmed report. start page 636 ; end page 646- Contributor: United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
- Date: 1944
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Book/Printed MaterialConference on Eastman Kodak Company defense problems for Division 16 of NDRC. (Progress Report Nos. 16.1-9 and -10.) Research lab: Eastman Kodak Company. Report. Digital reproduction from OSRD-NRDC microfilm; also available in print and on microfilm. Description from catalog card image included in microfilmed report. start page 66 ; end page 69- Contributor: United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
- Date: 1943
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Book/Printed MaterialA method for the prevention of mold growth on optical instruments exposed to tropical conditions. (Division 16. Report No. 92.) Report series: OEMsr-871; OSRD No. 4371. Research lab: University of Pittsburgh. Report. Digital reproduction from OSRD-NRDC microfilm; also available in print and on microfilm. Description from catalog card image included in microfilmed report. start page 647 ; end page 666- Contributor: United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
- Date: 1944
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Book/Printed MaterialMinutes of conference on research conducted in the Canal Zone on the fouling of optical instruments. (Division 16. Report No. 29.) Report series: OSRD No. 1833. Research lab: University of Pennsylvania. Report. Digital reproduction from OSRD-NRDC microfilm; also available in print and on microfilm. Description from catalog card image included in microfilmed report. start page 112 ; end page 152- Contributor: United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
- Date: 1943
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ArticleDivision 16 vol. 2 – Visibility Studies and Some Applications in the Field of Camouflage Division 16 of the Office of the Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) was assigned to start, arrange and monitor research investigations in the field of optics. The Division’s Section 16.3 focused on camouflage, looking at the limits of human vision and ways to exploit those limits to hide military equipment and personnel. Among the research topics the section looked at were the effect of…
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ArticleDivision 12 – Transportation Equipment and Related Problems Division 12 of the Office of the Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) was assigned to start, arrange and monitor research investigations in the field of transportation. Working with colleagues from the United Kingdom, Canada, contractors and other divisions, Division 12 worked on 34 projects and 100 sub-projects. Their contributions included the development of DUKW and other amphibious vehicles and tanks as well as doctrine…
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ArticleTropical Deterioration Administrative Committee — Tropical Deterioration of Equipment and Materials The Tropical Deterioration Administrative Committee of the OSRD orchestrated a program of research into the effects of the tropical environment, which soldiers encountered in the Pacific Theatre, upon cameras, film, textiles, plastic and other materials. In the course of their research, scientists assembled collections of fungi and bacteria and developed methods to protect equipment from them. In addition to their research efforts, the Committee…
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ArticleDivision 18 – War Metallurgy The War Metallurgy Division of the OSRD worked in conjunction with the War Metallurgy Committee of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council, a conglomeration of a number of similar committees set up just prior to the U.S. entry into the Second World War to work on metallurgy-related research. An Advisory Division of the War Metallurgy committee produced reports on methods…
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ArticleThe Applied Psychology Panel — Human Factors in Military Efficiency While military technologies come and go over time, military personnel - officers and enlisted soldiers and sailors - are a constant. To that end, towards the beginning of the Second World War, various military branches began to set up research groups to study issues cropping up with personnel. These disparate efforts would come to be coordinated and supplemented by the efforts of a “Committee…
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CollectionOffice of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) Reports On June 27, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved an order External issued by the Council of National Defense, a First World War era group of six Cabinet Secretaries, revived to coordinate support for the upcoming war effort. This order established the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), directing that the committee to “correlate and support scientific research on the mechanisms and devices of warfare…”.
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Book/Printed MaterialApplication of infrared radiation in the operation of railway locomatives under blackout conditions. Demonstration to representatives of the Transportation Corps, US Army, at the Engineer Board, February 22, 1944. (Supplementary Report No. … Report series: OEMsr-423; Research Project No. PDRC-403; OSRD No. 3946. Research lab: General Electric Company. Report. Digital reproduction from OSRD-NRDC microfilm; also available in print and on microfilm. Description from catalog card image included in microfilmed report. start page 167 ; end page 172- Contributor: United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
- Date: 1944
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Book/Printed MaterialThe manufacture of autocollimating lens units. (Final Progress Report No. 16.5-87.) Report series: OEMsr-932; ORSD No. 3948. Research lab: Rochester Button Company. Report. Digital reproduction from OSRD-NRDC microfilm; also available in print and on microfilm. Description from catalog card image included in microfilmed report. start page 649 ; end page 652- Contributor: United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
- Date: 1944
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Eppley Thermocouple. (Report No. 16.4-20.) Report series: OEMsr-1168. Research lab: Ohio State University. Report. Digital reproduction from OSRD-NRDC microfilm; also available in print and on microfilm. Description from catalog card image included in microfilmed report. start page 879 ; end page 882- Contributor: United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
- Date: 194?
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Book/Printed MaterialTrial of infrared devices in the detection of hidden Japanese defenses. Tests at Fort Knox, Kentucky on July 9, 10, and 11, 1945. (Progress Report No. 16.5-121.) Report series: OEMsr-423; Service Project Nos. CE-34 and NA-175; OSRD No. 5920. Research lab: General Electric Company. Report. Digital reproduction from OSRD-NRDC microfilm; also available in print and on microfilm. Description from catalog card image included in microfilmed report. start page 684 ; end page 692- Contributor: United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
- Date: 1945
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Book/Printed MaterialNight landing of aircraft with infrared radiation. Demonstration at Lancaster, Pa. on June 7, 1944. (Interim Report No. 16.5-103.) Report series: OEMsr-423; OSRD No. 4945. Research lab: General Electric Company. Report. Digital reproduction from OSRD-NRDC microfilm; also available in print and on microfilm. Description from catalog card image included in microfilmed report. start page 257 ; end page 267- Contributor: United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
- Date: 1944
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Book/Printed MaterialProtective coatings for plates of rock salt and silver chloride. (Final Report No. 16.4-25.) Report series: OEMsr-610. Research lab: Johns Hopkins University. Report. Digital reproduction from OSRD-NRDC microfilm; also available in print and on microfilm. Description from catalog card image included in microfilmed report. start page 400 ; end page 406- Contributor: United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
- Date: 1944