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whole: the main image occupies the upper half, held within a narrow black border. Additional images occupy the lower
right, lower centre and lower left. The title is partially integrated and occupies the centre, in black. The text is partially integrated
and occupies the lower left and lower right, in black. All set against a white background.
image: the main image depicts a group of four scientists working in the laboratory of a munitions factory. The two central figures observe
an experiment at a table laden with books and scientific equipment. A figure to their left sits in a chair and writes. Another figure in
the background uses a pair of scales to weigh powder. Large windows in the background reveal a row of smoking factory chimneys. The image
in the lower centre depicts a full-length portrait of a munitions worker, dressed in overalls, resting his arms upon an oversized artillery
shell. The image in the lower left is of a book, opened at a page entitled 'Science'. A design of smoke clouds occupy the lower left and
lower right.
text: V. Prouvé 1918
LE LABORATOIRE
L'Usine La Guerre
C'est du laboratoire et de l'usine que nos soldats reçoivent leurs munitions.
Le soldat combat au front, le savant au laboratoire.
La guerre ne se fait pas sans la science, soit qu'il s'agisse de rechercher des explosifs, soit qu'il y ait à calculer la résistance des
métaux, soit que des moyens de transmission ou de locomotion nouveaux réclament sur terre, dans l'air ou sous l'eau, l'effort incessant des
chimistes et des physiciens.
Apprendre les sciences, c'est apprendre à combattre.
SCIENCE
La guerre ne se fait pas sans l'industrie. Fabriquer le plus possible, le mieux possible, dans le moins de temps possible, voilà le
problème à résoudre pour qui veut vaincre. Munitions, armement, équipement, vêtements, outils et engins, moyens de transport et de
communication de tout genre sont indispensables à la Victoire. Que chacun travaille aussi courageusement que nos soldats nous défendent! Ne
pas les aider, ce serait les trahir.
Ils comptent sur nous comme nous comptons sur eux.
Imp. BERGER-LEVRAULT. Paris-Nancy.
[The Laboratory. The Factory. The War. It is from the laboratory and the factory that our soldiers receive their munitions. The soldier
fights at the front, the scientist in the laboratory. War cannot be waged without science, whether it is a question of researching into
explosives, or calculating the resistance of metals, or new means of transmission or locomotion on land, in the air or under the water,
requiring the ceaseless efforts of chemists and physicists. Learning science means learning how to fight. Science. War cannot be waged
without industry. Manufacturing as much as possible, as well as possible, in as short a time as possible, that is the problem anyone who
wants to win must resolve. Munitions, armaments, equipment, clothing, tools and machines, means of transport and communication of all kinds
are essential to Victory. Let each of us work as valiantly as our soldiers are defending us! Failing to help them would be to betray them.
They are relying on us as we are relying on them. Berger-Levrault, Printers, Paris-Nancy.]
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