Suryakanthie Chetty: Science and Technology in South Africa, 1939-1946, Gebunden

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1. Introduction.- 2. 'Brain-waves to beat Hitler': Science, Technology and Invention.- 3. 'Strange and wondrous things': Military Technology on Show.- 4. From Creation to Credit: Major Du Toit and the Invention of the Flail Tank.- 5. A Tale of Two Hospitals: Reconstructive Surgery and Race.- 6. Invention, Compensation and Dissemination at the Brenthurst Red Cross Military Hospital for Plastic Surgery.- 7. Man and Machine: Ernst Jokl, Aviation Medicine and 'a rational science of organism'.- 8. The Measured Mind: Aptitude Testing in the Union Defence Force.- 9. 'The amoebic beginning of a world mind...': Sharing Knowledge in a Post-war World.