Board of Invention and Research (Q16823678)

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English Wikipedia categories: 1915 establishments in the United Kingdom, 1918 disestablishments in the United Kingdom, Admiralty during World War I, Military research establishments of the United Kingdom, Royal Navy, United Kingdom in World War I

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The Board of Invention and Research (BIR) was a British expert-level committee, initiated by the Admiralty of the Royal Navy. Established in 1915, the board was responsible for soliciting expert scientific assistance to solve tactical and technical problems. It was a sister organisation to the Munitions Inventions Department which had been set up in April 1915 and the Air Inventions Committee (AIC), once it became become fully operational in the summer of 1917.

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