article_snippet: Katie Belshaw, curator of an exhibition on Manchester’s war effort, said: ‘It was something that had to be done because the men were going off to fight.
article_snippet: The exhibition at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry features diaries, company archives, sketches and letters written by Mr de Ferranti.
article_snippet: The exhibition at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry Science and Industry Industry features diaries, sketches and letters written by Mr de Ferranti (second left, back)
article_snippet: These include letters the engineer wrote to the engineer sons Basil and Vincent fighting at the front and rare sketches of the engineer munitions.
article_snippet: Also featuring are images of the engineer daughter Vera who worked on the production line at Vera father’s factory during the war.
article_snippet: And there will also be a section on the Munitions Inventions Department, which received ideas submitted by the public on how to win the war.
article_snippet: Examples of rejected inventions range from training seagulls to defecate on enemy periscopes to mounting machine guns on artificially frozen clouds.
article_snippet: Rachel Knight, head of exhibitions at Museum of Science and Industry, said visitors will be given an ‘insightful, original and personal take’ on the war.
article_snippet: Manchester’s Makers Join the war is open at the Museum of Science and Industry from Saturday until April 2016.