The Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) was an agency of the United States federal government created to coordinate scientific research for military purposes during World War II. Arrangements were made for its creation during May 1941, and it was created formally by Executive Order 8807 on June 28, 1941. It superseded the work of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), was given almost unlimited access to funding and resources, and was directed by Vannevar Bush, who reported only to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (From Wikipedia)
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Organizing Scientific Research for War: The Administrative History of the Office of Scientific Research and Development (from the Science in World War II series; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1948), by Irvin Stewart, contrib. by Vannevar Bush (page images at HathiTrust)- Combat Scientists (from the Science in World War II series; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1947), by Lincoln R. Thiesmeyer and John E. Burchard, ed. by Alan Tower Waterman, contrib. by K. T. Compton (page images at HathiTrust)
- New Weapons for Air Warfare: Fire-Control Equipment, Proximity Fuzes, and Guided Missiles (from the Science in World War II series; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1947), ed. by Joseph Canon Boyce, contrib. by Richard C. Tolman (page images at HathiTrust)
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Scientists against time (Little, Brown and company, 1946), by James Phinney Baxter (page images at HathiTrust)- Scientists against time. (M.I.T. Press, 1968), by James Phinney Baxter (page images at HathiTrust)
Books by United States Office of Scientific Research and Development:
- United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development: Science, the Endless Frontier (Washington: GPO, 1945), also by Vannevar Bush
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- United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development: The chemistry of penicillin (Princeton Univ. Press, 1949), also by National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
- United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development: The effect of bubbling on the multiplication constant. II (Technical Information Service, 1945), also by J. Ernest Wilkins, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. Metallurgical Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
- United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development: Equipment and procedures used in the study of the effects of irradiation of fish with X-rays ([publisher not identified], 1945) (page images at HathiTrust)
- United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development: Final report of the Summary Reports Group (The Division, 1948), also by Columbia University. Division of Government-Aided Research (page images at HathiTrust)
- United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development: OSRD report (National Defense Research Committee, Office of Scientific Research and Development, in the 20th century), also by United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
- United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development: Radar, a report on science at war. (Office of war information, 1945), also by United States. Joint Board on Scientific Information Policy, United States. Office of War Information, United States Navy Department, and United States War Department (page images at HathiTrust)
- United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development: Radar : a report on science at war (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1945), also by United States. Joint board on scientific information policy and United States Navy Department (page images at HathiTrust)
- United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development: Report on radar countermeasures ([Washington, D.C.] : Joint Board on Scientific Information Policy, 1945., 1945), also by United States. Publication Board, United States Navy Department, United States War Department, and United States. Joint Board on Scientific Information Policy (page images at HathiTrust)
- United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development: Science, the endless frontier. A report to the President (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1945), also by Vannevar Bush (page images at HathiTrust)
- United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development: Sequential analysis of statistical data: Applications (Columbia university press, 1945), also by Columbia University. Statistical Research Group (page images at HathiTrust)
- United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development: Topside listening; an operator's manual for the JP-1 sound receiving equipment. (Columbia University Division of War Research at the U.S. Navy Underwater Sound Laboratory, Fort Trumbull, 1943) (page images at HathiTrust)
- United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development: U. S. rocket ordnance, development and use in world war II. (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1946), also by United States. Joint board on scientific information policy, United States Navy Department, and United States War Department (page images at HathiTrust)
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