August 1915

摘要

These days, The Engineer gets quite a few of its research stories by looking at who's been awarded EPSRC grants. One of this organisation's main forerunners, the Board of Invention and Research, was set up by the Royal Navy a century ago, and it's fair to say that our predecessors met its formation with a fair amount of scepticism. At the root of The Engineer's concerns was the composition of the board. The problem? Not enough engineers. Unsurprisingly, all of the board members were men. The chairman was Admiral Lord John Arbuthnot Fisher who had recently retired as First Sea Lord because of a disagreement with Winston Churchill.