page_title: Army Inventions Board
hierarchical_section_title: Army Inventions Board
caption_attribution_description: English: Australian Second World War poster. The top half of the poster features a cartoon by Alex Gurney of an Australian soldier having a bright idea. The title for the poster is written into the soldiers' speech bubble and the caricature representing the idea popping out of the soldiers head is a mosquito instead of a light bulb. The poster is designed to encourage people to come up with ideas on saving waste or to think of new inventions for equipment. The lower half of the poster is all text directing people where to send their ideas in each state capital. Alex Gurney was a cartoonist, most famous in the Second World War for his comic strip 'Bluey and Curley', first published in the Melbourne Sun, in February 1941.
context_page_description: The Australian Army Inventions Board was established in 1900, and played a significant role in Allied Research and Development during World War I. However by the late 1930s it had been allowed to become mostly inactive. It was revived in early 1940 under the name 'Army Central Inventions Board', though it was still generally known by its older name. In 1942 the board was reorganized into the Army Inventions Directorate. It was a government body of the Commonwealth of Australia, set up in 1942 to handle the thousands of inventions submitted by the public. These inventions numbered some 27,000; a mere 127 of which were eventually accepted by the Army as being of notable value or suitable for military purposes. The best known invention accepted by the Army Inventions Board was the Australian-designed Owen Gun, a machine carbine which took a few years to get off the ground.
  The Army Inventions Directorate was located at Victoria Barracks in Melbourne.
context_section_description: The Australian Army Inventions Board was established in 1900, and played a significant role in Allied Research and Development during World War I. However by the late 1930s it had been allowed to become mostly inactive. It was revived in early 1940 under the name 'Army Central Inventions Board', though it was still generally known by its older name. In 1942 the board was reorganized into the Army Inventions Directorate (circa 1942-1946). It was a government body of the Commonwealth of Australia, set up in 1942 to handle the thousands of inventions submitted by the public. These inventions numbered some 27,000; a mere 127 of which were eventually accepted by the Army as being of notable value or suitable for military purposes. The best known invention accepted by the Army Inventions Board was the Australian-designed Owen Gun,  a machine carbine which took a few years to get off the ground.
  The Army Inventions Directorate was located at Victoria Barracks in Melbourne.
caption: The top half of the poster features a cartoon by Alex Gurney of an Australian soldier having a bright idea.
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