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AT the Science Museum, South Kensington, there has been arranged a special War Office Exhibition which, for a period of three months, gives visitors an opportunity of acquainting themselves with the numerous points at which science comes into contact with the work of the British Army. It will probably surprise many to learn that, at the several training centres for boys who enter at fourteen years of age, technical instruction, both practical and theoretical, is given which compares favourably with that obtained by the average apprentice in civil life. At the Military College of Science, Woolwich, this reaches its highest development in the training for the grade of artificer, Royal Artillery, the course for which extends over five years and produces men of high technical skill. Mechanization accounts for a great increase in the engineering requirements of Army services, and the extent of this will be realized from the exhibits showing the preparations for the driving and maintenance of transport vehicles and tanks and for the repairs carried out in the heavy workshops operated by the Royal Engineers and Royal Army Service Corps. The high stage of development reached in the signals and wireless services is demonstrated and here, to a large extent, the apparatus has to be specially designed for the conditions of use in the field, though, so far as possible, commercial forms are adopted.
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Science and the Army. Nature 142, 1168 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421168a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1421168a0