The Board of Invention and Research (BIR) was a British expert-level committee, initiated by the Admiralty of the Royal Navy. Established in 1915, the...
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The Australian Army Inventions Board was established in 1900, and played a significant role in Allied Research and Development during World War I. However...
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John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (redirect from John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone)
and then served as chairman of the Government's Board of Invention and Research until the end of the war. Fisher was five feet seven inches tall and stocky...
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The Advanced Research and Invention Agency, or ARIA, is a research funding agency of the UK government, announced on 19 February 2021 and formally established...
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Albert Beaumont Wood (category Academics of the University of Manchester)
a Fellow of the Physical Society in 1920. He was a founder member of the Institute of Physics. He joined the Board of Invention and Research in October...
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Board of Invention and Research, a military research group of the British Royal Navy Admiralty during World War I Burma's IOC country code Bureau of Internal...
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Anti-submarine warfare (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of June 2025)
smaller ships. In July 1915, the British Admiralty set up the Board of Invention and Research (BIR) to evaluate suggestions from the public as well as carrying...
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Royal Navy (redirect from Royal Navy of the United Kingdom)
admiral and member of the Defence Council of the United Kingdom. The Defence Council delegates management of the Naval Service to the Admiralty Board, chaired...
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House and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR). Two sister organisations were formed: The Board of Invention and Research (BIR)...
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William Henry Bragg (category Presidents of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics)
he was appointed to the Board of Invention and Research set up by the Admiralty. In September, his younger son Robert died of wounds at Gallipoli. In...
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Admiralty (United Kingdom) (redirect from Board of the Admiralty)
Admiralty Board in 1964, as part of the reforms that created the Ministry of Defence and its Navy Department (later Navy Command). Before the Acts of Union...
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Parkeston, Essex (category Port cities and towns in the East of England)
1917: Section II of the wartime Board of Invention and Research established a research station at the Quay under Sir William Bragg and Sir Ernest Rutherford...
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Discovery of the Longitude at Sea, or more popularly Board of Longitude, was a British government body formed in 1714 to administer a scheme of prizes intended...
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Paul Langevin (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
Holmes and Meier, 1986, ISBNÂ 0-8419-0977-6, and in Quinn Susan, Marie Curie: A Life, Heinemann, 1995, ISBNÂ 0-434-60503-4. Wolfram research biographical...
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First Sea Lord (redirect from First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff)
Council, the Admiralty Board and the Navy Board. Since 2012, the flagship of the First Sea Lord has nominally been the ship of the line HMS Victory, which...
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Rosyth Dockyard (category Ports and harbours of Scotland)
Admiralty took charge of the Royal Dockyards. Prior to this larger dockyards were overseen by a commissioner who represented the Navy Board. Included: Rear-Admiral...
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Robert William Boyle (category Pre-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador people)
Rutherford, he joined the Board of Inventions and Research and worked with British physicist Albert Beaumont Wood, a fellow student of Rutherford's. Before...
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Charles Hesterman Merz (category Alumni of Armstrong College, Durham)
of a Parliamentary Committee to address the problem. In the same war he was appointed Director of Experiments and Research on the Board of Invention and...
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Cavitation (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
propellers." Propeller Sub-Committee (Section III). Report of the Board of Invention and Research (September 17, 1917) London, England. Parsons, Charles A...
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Naval Intelligence Division (United Kingdom) (redirect from British Department of Naval Intelligence)
intelligence (Foreign) and (2) Mobilisation. In 1900 another division, War, was added to deal with issues of strategy and defence, and in 1902 a fourth division...
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for Scientific and Industrial Research and Inventions (Office national des recherches scientifiques et industrielles et des inventions, ONRSII) was a...
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Grand Fleet (category Military units and formations of the Royal Navy in World War I)
Grand Fleet was the main battlefleet of the Royal Navy during the First World War. It was established in August 1914 and disbanded in April 1919. Its main...
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development of active sound devices for detecting submarines in 1915 using quartz. In 1916, under the British Board of Invention and Research, Canadian...
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Anti-Submarine Division (Royal Navy) (redirect from Anti-Submarine and Warfare Division (Royal Navy))
Board of Admiralty. Further systematic assessments and experimentation would take place from 1911 until 1915 when the Board of Invention and Research...
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Sonar (redirect from SONAR, Main advantage and applications of)
been developed for projectors. In 1916, under the British Board of Invention and Research, Canadian physicist Robert William Boyle took on the active...
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HM Nautical Almanac Office (redirect from Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac)
manufacturers, photographers and film crews. In 1937, it became part of ROG and moved with it, when it moved away from Greenwich (and was renamed the Royal Greenwich...
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Britannia Royal Naval College (category Universities and colleges established in 1863)
Interview Board, where they are tested mentally and physically. Several mental aptitude tests are administered, along with a basic physical fitness test and a...
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Royal Navy Medical Service (redirect from Department of the Inspector-General of Naval Hospitals and Fleets)
of the Sick and Hurt Board (a subsidiary body of the Navy Board) until 1806, when medical officers of the Royal Navy had been under the direction of the...
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theoretical and practical experience in the dockyard and at sea. Graduates of the Academy could earn two years of sea time as part of their studies, and would...
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Greenwich Hospital, London (redirect from Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital)
Greenwich and the University of Greenwich, and are now known as the Old Royal Naval College. The word "hospital" was used in its original sense of a place...
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