Board of Invention and Research

Board of Invention and Research
Agency overview
Formed	1915
Dissolved	1918
Superseding agency	Scientific Research and Experiment Department;
Jurisdiction	Government of the United Kingdom
Headquarters	Admiralty Building; Whitehall; London
Parent agency	Admiralty

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

^ Schneider, William (2009). Operations Research Applications for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance: Report of the Defense Science Board Advisory Group on Defense Intelligence. Darby, PA: DIANE Publishing. p. 13. ISBN 978-1437917208.
^ Pattison, Michael (1983). "Scientists, Inventors and the Military in Britain, 1915-19: The Munitions Inventions Department". Social Studies of Science. 13 (4): 521–568. doi:10.1177/030631283013004004. ISSN 0306-3127. JSTOR 284847. S2CID 145727609.

[schneider-1] Schneider, William (2009). Operations Research Applications for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance: Report of the Defense Science Board Advisory Group on Defense Intelligence. Darby, PA: DIANE Publishing. p. 13. ISBN 978-1437917208.

[Pattison-2] Pattison, Michael (1983). "Scientists, Inventors and the Military in Britain, 1915-19: The Munitions Inventions Department". Social Studies of Science. 13 (4): 521–568. doi:10.1177/030631283013004004. ISSN 0306-3127. JSTOR 284847. S2CID 145727609.

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