Activity reports of Division 2 and Division 7 of the National Defense Research Committee.

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Activity reports of Division 2 and Division 7 of the National Defense Research Committee.

War diaries and activity reports of Warren Weaver and others from Division 2 and Division 7 of the National Defense Research Committee (name later changed to Office of Scientific Research and Development) from July 2, 1940 through Oct. 11, 1945. Weaver was one of the original appointees to the NDRC and headed the fire-control section and the Applied Mathematics Panel. Includes a few sketches to illustrate projects of the organization and some pages of mathematical formulas apparently in Weaver's hand.

4 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 29 cm.

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