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Bacon, Reginald, 57, 82
balance of trade in instruments, 11213, 117
ballistics, 36, 46, 71
bankruptcy, 51, 197
Barr, Archibald, 13, 18, 25, 45, 51, 54, 77,
80, 99, 100, 155, 178, 206
Barr & Stroud Ltd
Admiralty orders, 2732, 4653, 58,
934, 97, 104, 1523, 170, 193203,
211
binocular manufacture, 1745
diversification, 512, 1779
exports, 58, 74, 93, 113, 153
sales agency arrangement, 26, 30
War Office, relations with, 413, 45, 62,
66, 779, 934, 1036, 116, 1523,
16971, 177
Barr and Stroud partnership, 18, 26, 29, 31,
43, 49, 51, 80
Barr & Strouds Patents, 29
battleship, 12, 32, 35, 46, 489, 59, 71,
201, 203
Bausch & Lomb, 106, 1378, 153, 195,
2023
Beck, R. & J., 64, 66, 67, 99, 100, 102,
1256, 129, 144, 1635, 1678
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Director of Artillery, 23
Director of Naval Construction, 74, 185
Director of Naval Ordnance, 23, 47, 192
Director of Scientific Research, 1978
disarmament, 5, 6, 2013
disposal of war-surplus stores, 105, 174, 194
diversification, 512, 74, 100, 124, 178, 183,
204, 207, 211
DORA, see Defence of the Realm (Amendment) Act
Dreadnought, HMS, 48
dreadnought warship, see battleship
Dreyer, F. C., 72, 74
duplex rangefinder, 201
Dutch army, 195
education, 86, 10810, 113, 124, 146, 182,
207, 209
see also training; university
Electric Boat Co., 57
electrical engineering, 12, 24, 54, 71
embargo on foreign trade, 106
end-reflectors, 16
Esslemont, Alfred, 11425, 1301, 13744,
1536, 209
Examiner of Patents, 109
Excellent, HMS, 23, 26, 47, 53
Excess Profits Duty, 121, 168, 190, 199, 200
Expeditionary Force, 88
exports of civil instruments, 12, 21, 11213,
117
exports of optical munitions, 21, 26, 30, 49,
58, 74, 83, 93, 100, 11213, 117, 175
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Jackson, Harold
dealings with Admiralty, 745, 97, 104,
1936
dealings with Ministry of Munitions,
1545, 169, 1713
dealings with War Office, 1035, 1534,
172
role as manager in Barr & Stroud, 2631,
434, 55, 7381, 97103, 150, 154,
170, 178, 1939
Japanese optical industry, 201, 210
see also Nippon Kogaku
Jena, see Zeiss
Jena glass, see optical glass
Kelvin Bottomley & Baird, 83, 183, 1856
Kelvin, Lord, 18, 54
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Mekometer, 17, 19, 202, 37, 3943, 601,
75
MGO, see Master General of the Ordnance
microscope, 12, 39, 112, 160, 182
Mill Hill, see Zeiss
Ministry of Munitions, 2, 67, 86, 904,
10610, 11618, 1214, 130, 133,
13740, 145, 1502, 157, 15968,
172, 1779, 184, 187, 208
mirrors, 1618, 25, 57
The Modern Rangefinder, 109
Moeller, J. D., 81
monopoly, 49, 57, 65, 713, 82, 934, 979,
103, 116, 137, 139, 172, 183, 1856,
191, 202
Mouton W., Admiral, 74
Munitions Accounts Office, 171
Munitions of War Act, 114, 118, 184, 192
National Physical Laboratory, 145
Nature, 43
naval observation telescopes, 71
Naval Estimates, annual, 47
Navy Contracts Department, 192
Negretti & Zambra, 118
Nippon Kogaku, 203
nitroglyerine propellant, 10
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subcontracting, 24, 83, 98, 99101, 103,
146
submarine, 1, 3, 4, 35, 46, 579, 71, 823,
168, 170, 174, 179, 1812, 1856, 191,
195, 203
see also periscope
subsidy, 135, 140, 177, 192, 1968, 204,
210, 211
surveying instruments and techniques, 3,
1012, 14, 17, 1921, 63, 73, 87, 172
symbiotic relationships, 44, 75, 105, 141,
154, 191, 204, 211
taxation, wartime, 11921, 141, 168, 191
Taylor, H. D., optical designer, 723, 76
Taylor J. & H., 142
Taylor, Taylor & Hobson Ltd, 81, 99,
1023, 120, 1267, 1424
technical optics, 110, 1246, 179
Technical Optics Committee, 1256
technical schools, 113, 124, 209
technological infrastructure, 107, 179
telemeter, 19, 42
telescope, early military use, 1, 9
telescopic rifle sight, 103, 125, 133, 137,
1459
telescopic sight, artillery, 3, 10, 3940, 478,
59, 71, 103, 137
telescopes, sighting, 20, 48, 128
tenders, 3940, 62, 912, 146, 200
theodolite, see surveying instruments
tooling, 95, 114, 120, 128, 136, 13940,
151, 182, 196
see also machinery
tracking prism, 16
trade unions, 119, 140, 160
Traill Taylor Memorial Lecture, 109
Traill Taylor Memorial Medal, 155
training, 7, 81, 86, 10810, 113, 1247,
131, 13941, 144, 147, 1501, 156,
170, 179, 182, 207, 209
see also education
Treasury, 12, 39, 62, 93, 119, 121, 164, 173,
1989, 211
Treasury Contracts Committee, 173
trench periscope, 163
trench warfare, 149, 163
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W. G. Armstrong Mitchell & Co., see
Armstrong
warlike stores, 10, 105
War Break Clause, 165
War Office
approved contractors system, 39, 902
expenditure on optical munitions, 66, 93
procurement procedures, 359, 49, 628,
858, 913, 106, 108, 110, 117
Washington Treaty, 201, 203
Watkin, H. S., 17, 19, 201, 24, 39
Watson, W. & Sons, 81, 99, 125, 130
Watson-Baker, T, 125
Watts, E. R. & Son, 144, 163, 1678
weapons technology, 36, 83, 205
Weekly Reports (Optical Munitions and
Glassware Department), 7, 120, 130,
1356, 141
Wedgwood, Colonel, 111, 113, 121, 1234
White, James and Co., 25, 54
William Beardmore & Co., 151
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