LibGuides: World War I, Chemistry and the Chemical Industry: Books

Warfare

The Edgewood Arsenal, Edgewood, Md.
The American verdict on the war: a reply to the appeal to the civilized world of 93 German professors
By Samuel Harden Church, 1915
America's munitions 1917-1918 : report of Benedict Crowell, the Assistant Secretary of War, Director of Munitions.
United States. War Dept. 1919
Der chemische Krieg; Gasangriff, Gasabwehr und Raucherzeugung, von Dr. R. Hanslian und Fr. Bergendorff.
By Rudolf Hanslian, 1925.
Includes photos of different gas masks.
The story of the First gas regiment
By James Thayer Addison, 1919.
Fünf Vorträge aus den Jahren 1920-1923
By Fritz Haber, 1924.
Über die Darstellung des Ammoniaks aus Stickstoff und Wasserstoff.- Die Chemie im Kriege.- Das Zeitalter der Chemie.- Neue Arbeitsweisen.- Zur Geschichte des Gaskrieges.
Marine paints
Educational Bureau, Paint Manufacturers Association of the United States, c1916
By Henry A. Gardner.
Standard Paint Specifications
United States. War Dept. 1918
A French-English military technical dictionary : with a supplement containing recent military and technical terms
Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1917.
Technical records of explosives supply 1915-1918.
Great Britain. Ministry of Munitions. 1920

History

A strange and formidable weapon: British responses to World War I poison gas
By Marion Girard, 2008
Frontline and factory: comparative perspectives on the chemical industry at war, 1914-1924
Edited by Roy MacLeod and Jeffrey Allan Johnson, 2006.
The poisonous cloud: chemical warfare in the First World War
By L.F. Haber, 1986.
Germany in the war and after
By Vernon Kellogg, 1919.
La chimie et la guerre: science et avenir
By Charles Moreu, 1920.
The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war
By Victor Lefebure, 1923.
Chemical warfare
By Amos A. Fries and Clarence J. West, 1921.
The German chemical industry in the twentieth century
Edited by John E. Lesch, 2000

Industry

Aims and purposes of the Chemical foundation, incorporated, and the reasons for its organization
As told by A. Mitchell Palmer, former alien property custodian, in his report to Congress, and by Francis P. Garvan, alien property custodian, in an address to the National cotton manufactures' association. 1919
Industrial America in the world war; the strategy behind the line, 1917-1918
by Grosvenor B. Clarkson, with an introduction by Georges Clemenceau. 1923.
American industry in the war; a report of the War Industries Board
United States. War Industries Board. 1941
By Bernard M. Baruch.
An Exhibit prepared under the auspices of the National Research Council with the cooperation of the Chemical War Service of the United States Army
Chemical Foundation. Smithsonian. 1921
Four years' work: an account of the progress of the coal-tar chemical industry in England during the war
Levinstein Limited, 1918.
History of the manufacture of explosives for the world war, 1917-1918.
By W. Bradford Williams, 1920.
Includes many pictures of American factories.
Statistical supplement to the final report of the nitrogen products committee of the ministry of munitions.
Great Britain. Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research. 1921
Nitrogen Products Committee final report.
Ministry of Munitions of War. Munitions Inventory Dept. 1920
Methods for the detection of toxic gases in industry. 1-12, Leaflet.
Great Britain. Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research. 1938-1943.
Growing American rubber: strategic plants and the politics of national security
By Mark R. Finlay, 2009

Bridging Two Wars

Chemistry in warfare, its strategic importance
By F. A. Hessel, M. S. Hessel and Wellford Martin. 1940
Medical manual of chemical warfare.
Great Britain. War Office. 1941
First aid in the prevention and treatment of chemical casualties.
United States. Office of Civilian Defense. Medical Division. 1941
Color images.
Defense against chemical attack.
United States. Army. Chemical Warfare Service. 1940
War Dept. Field manual ; FM 21-40.