The National Defense Research Committee was a United States government body created on June 27, 1940, to coordinate civilian scientific research for military purposes in the period before American ent
NACA committee, 1938
The Birmingham cavity magnetron
Vannevar Bush President, Carnegie Institution of Washington Chairman
James B. Conant President, Harvard University Division B (Bombs, Fuels, Gases, Chemical Problems)
Council of National Defense
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The Council of National Defense was a United States organization formed during World War I to coordinate resources and industry in support of the war effort, including the coordination of transportati
National Defense Research Committee
…activity by extending the research base and enlisting the aid of the scientists." The NDRC was formally established on June 27, 1940, by an order of the Council of National Defense, a dormant World War I-era body of six Cabinet secretaries that was briefly revived to provide legal authority for the new committee. This mechanism…
Council of National Defense WWI
New Jersey suffragists helping the Liberty Bond drive in 1918
Nebraska State Council of Defense, ca. 1918