Ebook: Science and the Navy: the history of the Office of Naval Research

Chapter one : introduction -- Chapter two : the origins of the office of Naval Research -- Chapter three : the office of National Research -- Chapter four -- the office of no return? ONR anf the issue of relevance -- Chapter five : managing naval science -- Chapter six science advice for the navy -- Chapter seven : conclusion.;Explains how and why the ONR became the first federal agency to support a wide range of scientific work in universities. Sapolsky (public policy and organization, MIT) shows that the ONR functioned as a "surrogate national science foundation" between 1946 and 1950 and argues that its activities emer.