Report from the Select Committee on Explosive Substances
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-12-30
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 3368850482
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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-12-30
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 3368850482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 790
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Parliamentary Library of South Australia
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Published: 1878
Total Pages: 154
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Daniel R. LeClair
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2019-10-28
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 147667499X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK From the Crimean War through the Second Boer War, the British Empire sought to solve the "Great Gun Question"--to harness improvements to ordnance, small arms, explosives and mechanization made possible by the Industrial Revolution. The British public played a surprising but overlooked role, offering myriad suggestions for improvements to the civilian-led War Office. Meanwhile, politicians and army leaders argued over control of the country's ground forces in a decades-long struggle that did not end until reforms of 1904 put the military under the Secretary of State for War. Following the debate in the press, voters put pressure on both Parliament and the War Office to modernize ordnance and military administration. The "Great Gun Question" was as much about weaponry as about who ultimately controlled military power. Drawing on ordnance committee records and contemporary news reports, this book fills a gap in the history of British military technology and army modernization prior to World War I.
Author: Roland Jackson
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2023-11-14
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0822990059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn twenty-first-century Britain, scientific advice to government is highly organized, integrated across government departments, and led by a chief scientific adviser who reports directly to the prime minister. But at the end of the eighteenth century, when Roland Jackson’s account begins, things were very different. With this book, Jackson turns his attention to the men of science of the day—who derived their knowledge of the natural world from experience, observation, and experiment—focusing on the essential role they played in proffering scientific advice to the state, and the impact of that advice on public policy. At a time that witnessed huge scientific advances and vast industrial development, and as the British state sought to respond to societal, economic, and environmental challenges, practitioners of science, engineering, and medicine were drawn into close involvement with politicians. Jackson explores the contributions of these emerging experts, the motivations behind their involvement, the forces that shaped this new system of advice, and the legacy it left behind. His book provides the first detailed analysis of the provision of scientific, engineering, and medical advice to the nineteenth-century British government, parliament, the civil service, and the military.
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). Library
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 550
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Senate Select Committee On Intelligence
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2020-02-18
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13: 1612198473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe study edition of book the Los Angeles Times called, "The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations." This is the complete Executive Summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation into the CIA's interrogation and detention programs -- a.k.a., The Torture Report. Based on over six million pages of secret CIA documents, the report details a covert program of secret prisons, prisoner deaths, interrogation practices, and cooperation with other foreign and domestic agencies, as well as the CIA's efforts to hide the details of the program from the White House, the Department of Justice, the Congress, and the American people. Over five years in the making, it is presented here exactly as redacted and released by the United States government on December 9, 2014, with an introduction by Daniel J. Jones, who led the Senate investigation. This special edition includes: • Large, easy-to-read format. • Almost 3,000 notes formatted as footnotes, exactly as they appeared in the original report. This allows readers to see obscured or clarifying details as they read the main text. • An introduction by Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones who led the investigation and wrote the report for the Senate Intelligence Committee, and a forward by the head of that committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Author: Metropolitan Board of Works (London, England)
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 974
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 1174
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