Article: The Naval Research Laboratory - 75 years of innovations.

The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), "corporate laboratory" of the U.S. Navy, owes its existence to a collaboration between Thomas Alva Edison and Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels. An Edison interview with The New York Times on 30 May 1915 on the topic of war preparedness, caught Secretary Daniels' eye. Edison had remarked there that the on-going war in Europe was "a matter of machines rather than of men," and that the United States needed to place its reliance on research and development that would keep it at the forefront of new technology. For the latter, Edison suggested the government "maintain a great research laboratory" where it could "keep ...

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