20th+

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

⧫ Inventors, Engineers, Scientists

Inventors, Engineers, Scientists - 20th C

Balfour, Lady Eve - organic farming pioneer ..

Buckminster Fuller ↠

Drummond, Jack - nutritionist ..

Fleming, Sir Alexander - Penicillin 1928 ..

Hedy Lamarr and the Torpedo ↠

Paperclip - poaching German scientists ..

Theoretical Biology Club ..

Agriculturalists, Horticulturalists:
Balfour, Lady Eve - organic farming pioneer ..
Liebig - Justus von Liebig ↠

Biochemists, Nutritionists:
Drummond, Jack - nutritionist ..

Chemists
Liebig - Justus von Liebig ↠

Civilian, Organizers:

Denman - Trudie, Baroness Denman .. WI, WLA .

Engineering Companies

Lockheed Martin ..

Engineers:

John Logie Baird FRSE, inventor, television

Caroline Haslett, British engineer
Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey
Caroline Haslett, British engineer
Christopher Hawkes - archaeologist
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis CBE FRS RDI FRAeS - English scientist, engineer and inventor

Inventors
Hedy Lamarr and the Torpedo ↠
John Logie Baird FRSE, inventor, television
Major General Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart, "Hobo", command of the 79th Armoured Division during World War II -- specialised armoured vehicles = "Hobart's Funnies".

Ophthalmology

Nesfield, Vincent Blumhardt (1879 - 1972)

Physicians - St. Bart's
Keynes, Geoffrey - St Bart's ..

19th C

Darwin, Charles ..

Edison's R&D Lab ↠

Röntgen, X-rays, 1895-12-28 ↠

Tesla, Edison ↠

15th, 16th C

Leonardo da Vinci ↠

Friday, February 16, 2007

⧫ MI5, OSS

MI5

Major-General Sir Vernon George Waldegrave Kell, "K" -- founder (1909) and first Director of the British Security Service, otherwise known as MI5 (until 1940)
Sir John Cecil Masterman OBE; chairman Twenty Committee, Double Cross System
Charles Henry Maxwell Knight OBE, known as Maxwell Knight, "M" British intelligence officer in charge of MI5 departments dealing with counter-subversion on home ground
Thomas (TAR) Argyll Robertson -- MI5 -- XX
Monty - Field Marshal Bernard Law *Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL (17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty" and "The Spartan General", was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First World War and the Second World War.
Anti-Appeasement - Major Sir Desmond Morton
Lord Louis Mountbatten - Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command (1943–46)

LCS - London Controlling Section ..

OSS - USA
William Donovan (OSS Director) ..

OSS : Spy Training ..

⧫ Deception - WW2 ..

⧫ Military Officers

Air Warfare Advocates of 1920s: General Giulio Douhet > , Walther Wever, Brigadier General William L. (Billy) Mitchell and Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard

D-Day Who's Who ..
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, WWI BEF
Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside GCB, CMG, DSO
German Military
von Stauffenberg, Claus ..

Military

Mahan & Naval Strategy ..

Special Operations

Fairbairn & Sykes ..

LCS - London Controlling Section ..

⧫ Conscription, Forces - WW2 ..
⧫ Deception - WW2 ..