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Admiralty Research Laboratory

The Admiralty Research Laboratory, or ARL, was a research laboratory that supported the work of the UK Admiralty in Teddington, London, England.

During the First World War, the Anti-Submarine Division of the Admiralty had established experimental stations at Hawkcraig (Aberdour) and Parkeston Quay, Harwich, without-stations at Dartmouth and Wemyss Bay, to work on submarine detection methods. The Admiralty also established an experimental station at Shandon, Dumbartonshire,[1] working with the Lancashire Anti-Submarine Committee and the Clyde Anti-Submarine Committee, which subsequently moved to Teddington in 1921, becoming the Admiralty Research Laboratory. Its main fields of research expanded to include oceanography (it housed the National Institute of Oceanography, 1949-1953); electromagnetics and degaussing; underwater ballistics; visual aids; acoustics; infra-red radiation; photography and assessment techniques.[2] It moved to Teddington so that it could benefit from the expertise of the National Physical Laboratory[3]

Notable employees

Notable people who worked at the ARL included:

Notes and references

  1. ^ Shield of Empire - The Royal Navy and Scotland, Brian Lavery, Birlinn 2007, ISBN 978-1-84158-513-0
  2. ^ National Archive Information
  3. ^
  4. ^ Bio at Wellcome Trust
  5. ^ Obituary in The Times Sat Dec 28th 1985, p8
  6. ^ Bio here
  7. ^ RV Jones Papers
  8. ^ British Library of Political and Economic Science
  9. ^ Bio-details here
  10. ^ Peter Wright, Spycatcher, Toronto 1987, Stoddart Publishers, Chapter 2.

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