Excerpt from The Armies of Industry, Vol. 2: Our Nation's Manufacture of Munitions for a World in Arms, 1917 1918 At the outbreak of the war American knowledge of mili tary aviation may have been meager; still, it was evident from the start that we should be able to go ahead with certain phases of production on a huge scale without waiting for the precise knowledge of requirements that would come only from an exhaustive Study of the subject in Europe. In the first place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.