Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables -- Maps -- PART I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Problem and Its Setting -- PART II. The Era of Preparation -- Chapter 2. Boston as a Center of Capital, 1820-1845 -- Chapter 3. Moving into Railroad Investment: Experience in the East --...

This is the first of two projected volumes on the history of operational research (OR) in Britain commissioned by the UK Operational Research Society. Based upon a vast array of published and unpublished sources, the book provides an original account of the discipline's pre-war and wartime...