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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Anti-submarine warfare (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 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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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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Paul Langevin (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
Holmes and Meier, 1986, ISBN 0-8419-0977-6, and in Quinn Susan, Marie Curie: A Life, Heinemann, 1995, ISBN 0-434-60503-4. Wolfram research biographical...
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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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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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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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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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the Eddystone Rocks in Devon, England between 1696 and 1698. Boasting of the safety of his invention, he expressed a desire to shelter inside it "during...
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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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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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Indies and China was a formation of the Royal Navy from 1831 to 1865. Its naval area of responsibility was the Indian Ocean and the coasts of China and its...
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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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post-holder was a member of the Board of Admiralty and later a member of the Admiralty Board. The original office of Comptroller of the Navy was established...
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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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Flag of the Lord Admiral of England (1547-1553) when on board a ship. First command Flag of the Lord Admiral of England (1554-1558) under Mary I and Philip...
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Royal Observatory, Greenwich (category Buildings and structures in the Royal Borough of Greenwich)
(the Board of Ordnance and Board of Longitude) and oversight by a Board of Visitors, founded in 1710 and made up of the President and Members of the council...
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Admiralty buildings (category History of the Royal Navy)
contained the Admiralty board room, which is still used by the Admiralty Board, other state rooms, offices and apartments for the Lords of the Admiralty. Robert...
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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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The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. This...
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The Board of Admiralty (1628–1964) was established in 1628 when Charles I put the office of Lord High Admiral into commission. As that position was not...
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