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II. Metallurgical Branch. Pr HE metallurgical branch of the Research Department had been established for some years before the war, the staff consisting of four metallurgists. As work increased, additions became imperative, and before the armistice the scientific staff numbered thirty-seven, of whom a number were women. At the end of 1916 the branch removed into a new building 120 ft. long and ft. wide, divided into laboratories well equipped for mechanical testing of all kinds, chemical analysis, microscopy and photomicrography, experimental heat-treatment, the thermal study of alloys, and other branches of physical metallurgy. Figs. 4 and 5 show two of these laboratories. The machine shops of the Department, on which metallurgical work made great demands, were much extended and improved.
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ROBERTSON, R. The Research Department, Woolwich1. Nature 105, 743–745 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105743a0
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