STIMULUS OF WAR
SHOWN IN SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS . ROYAL SOCIETY PRESIDENT’S BROADCAST. SOLUTION OF PROBLEMS AT INCREDIBLE RATE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, December 15. “Science had advanced more in the year of war than during a decade in peace time,” said Sir William Bragg, president of the Royal Society, in a broadcast address. He added that scientists were solving war time problems at an incredible rate. The best German technicians had been conscripted for war work for years, but Britain had not organised scientists for war before the outbreak of hostilities with Germany. Now the country had 10,000 research workers registered, including 1600 chemists, 1000 physicists, 500 mathematicians, 700 zoolologists and 1500 medical research workers. Scientists were improving electrical devices, particularly radio, discovering how to put out of action time fuses and booby traps, analysing the secrets of captured enemy instruments, working on air war problems and finding alternative motive power for transport.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1940, Page 6
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