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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/trs/trsosrd.html">Office of Scientific Research and Development Collection</a> at <a href="/facts/Library_of_Congress/TfB6dEN5">Library of Congress</a>. Original research conducted by the U.S. and Allies during World War II- includes technical reports, memos, drawings, etc.</li> <li><a href="https://www.loc.gov/collections/office-of-scientific-research-and-development-reports/about-this-collection/">Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) Reports</a> at <a href="/facts/Library_of_Congress/TfB6dEN5">Library of Congress</a>. A digital collection of declassified technical laboratory and field reports as well as other reference material from OSRD’s Division 12: Transportation and Division 16 Optics/ Camouflage. The material was digitized from the microfilm collection and represents the “most important” research reports found in the hardcopy collection.</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100520212523/http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/OSRD.html">OSRD OSRD timeline</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/227.html">Records of the OSRD at the National Archive</a></li> <li>Stewart, Irvin. <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/organizingscient00stew">Organizing Scientific Research for War: The Administrative History of the Office of Scientific Research and Development</a>.</i> Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Executive Order 8807—Establishing the Office of Scientific Research and Development". The American Presidency Project. 1941-06-28. Retrieved 2023-12-16. <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-8807-establishing-the-office-scientific-research-and-development-the" target="_blank">https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-8807-establishing-the-office-scientific-research-and-development-the</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Sullivan, Neil J. (2016). The Prometheus Bomb: The Manhattan Project and Government in the Dark. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. p. 78. ISBN 978-1-61234-815-5. <a href="978-1-61234-815-5" target="_blank">978-1-61234-815-5</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Alexander Fleming Discovery and Development of Penicillin - Landmark". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 3 August 2022. <a href="https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/flemingpenicillin.html" target="_blank">https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/flemingpenicillin.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>