Admiralty Research Laboratory
- 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, with out-stations at Dartmouth and Wemyss Bay, to work on submarine detection methods. The Admiralty also established an experimental station at Shandon, Dumbartonshire ["Shield of Empire - The Royal Navy and Scotland", Brian Lavery, Birlinn 2007, ISBN 9781841585130] , 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; underwater ballistics; visual aids; acoustics; infra-red radiation; photography and assessment techniques. [ [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/Leaflets/ri2038.htm National Archive Information] ] It moved to Teddington so that it could benefit from the expertise of the National Physical Laboratory [R. V. Jones "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences," Vol. 342, No. 1631, "A Discussion on the Effects of the Two World Wars on the Organization and Development of Science in the United Kingdom" (Apr. 15, 1975), pp. 481-490]
Notable Employees
Notable people who worked at the ARL included:
* Francis Crick (from 1940-1947) who helped to design magnetic and acoustic mines [ [http://genome.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_wtd021051.html Bio at Wellcome Trust] ]
* Martin Beale (from 1951-1960) who developed techniques for mathematical optimisation [Obituary in "The Times" Sat Dec 28th 1985, p8]
* Edward Lee
* Jack Good (1959-1962) [ [http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Good.html Bio here] ]
* R. V. Jones (1938-1939) [ [http://www.bath.ac.uk/ncuacs/rslp-rvj.htm RV Jones Papers] ]
* Charles Drysdale (superintendent 1921-1929) [ [http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=5218&inst_id=1 British Library of Political and Economic Science] ]
* Cyril Hilsum (1947-1950)
* Peter Wright (during the Second World War) [ [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SSwright.htm Bio-details here] ]
* Albert Beaumont Wood
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