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Film, Video Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex

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Title

  • Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex

Summary

  • Daniel Else explored the results of his year-long inquiry into the organizational underpinnings of that military technological revolution of the 1940s and 1950s. By mining the Library's resources, Else traced the evolving relationship between science and the federal government leading to the creation of the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) in 1941. A temporary wartime agency, OSRD mobilized the nation's academic and industrial technological resources in support of the war effort, and in so doing profoundly altered the linkages between science and engineering, industry, and government. Else explored those wartime changes and outline their impact, still seen and felt today more than seven decades after V-J Day.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2017-09-21.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Education
  • -  Science, Technology
  • -  Military Technological Revolution, Office of Scientific Research and Development, World War II

Notes

  • -  Classification: Education.
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Military Science.
  • -  Classification: Technology.
  • -  Daniel Else.
  • -  Recorded on 2017-09-21.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021690613

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-21, 2017. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690613/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2017) Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-21. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690613/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-21, 2017. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021690613/>.