|
Directorate Of Inventions For National Defense
The Directorate of Inventions for National Defense (''Direction des Inventions intéressant la défense nationale'') was a French weapons research research institute, institute. The directorate was established within the Ministry of Public Instruction, Fine Arts, and Inventions for National Defense by decree on 13 November 1915, at the initiative of Minister Paul Painlevé who after the resignation of the René Viviani government in October 1915, had become Minister of Public Instruction in the Aristide Briand government. He established the Directorate of Inventions and appointed Émile Borel and Jean Perrin as respectively head and deputy head of the "Technical Cabinet" and Jules-Louis Breton as head of the "Commission for the Examination of Inventions for the Army" (Commission des inventions), an entity created in 1877 but previously inactive. In form it was a governmental body operating under various ministries from 1915 to 1919. It was briefly transformed into a State Secretari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and List of islands of France, many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it Exclusive economic zone of France, one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its Regions of France, eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of and hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
