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Object description
whole: the main image occupies the upper half, with a smaller image positioned mainly in the lower centre. The title and
text are partially integrated with the smaller image, and positioned in the lower half, in black. All set against a white
background.
image: four scientists working in the laboratory of a munitions factory. One sits at a desk and writes, another uses a scale to weigh
powder. The other two stand together at a table, observing an experiment. the table is laden with books and scientific equipment. The
chimneys of the factory can be seen through a window behind them. The smaller image is of a munitions worker leaning on an oversized
artillery shell. An oversized book, open to a page entitled 'Science', lays on the ground.
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
chemistes 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 vent 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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