The evolution of the Office of Naval Research
DOI: 10.1063/1.3057690
It is not often that the birth of a Navy office, which certainly sounds like like a cold, administrative affair, makes history worth recording. But the birth of the Office of Naval Research was such an interesting one, participated in by so many famous and brilliant personalities, that a record of the events should serve a useful purpose. It might even bring inspiration to those who daily continue the struggle to evolve constructive changes in large government departments.
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Bruce S. Old. Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, Mass..