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I remember reading an article about consumer good companies producing goods for the war effort and Lionel was mentioned. I don't recall if they mentioned an inclinometer, they did mention a compass, and I believe they also built gyroscopic navigation devices that were used in torpedoes if I remember correctly,  they also I seem to recall built portions of the targeting system used in torpedoes as well(when you hear  them in the old movies targeting about a targeting solution in a WWII sub, they are setting the torpedo with settings  based on tables based on distance to target, speed of the target ship, depth, etc).  One of these days it would be a pleasure to do more research on how they were able to turn a manufacturing base that had been devastated by the Depression, obviously lost skilled workers to the military, and on figuring out which companies to approach with building what  they needed.

The auto industry building tanks, or even airplanes, kind of is easy to see, but a lot of consumer product companies produced a wide range of components and parts for the military, how did they figure out who was best to do a particular thing. Some of which is pretty well documented, how they were able to use "Rosie the Riveter" and other people who had never  done that  kind of work to build pretty complex things, but not the rest.  Since WWII, defense products are made by specialty companies or divisions of bigger companies (it always cracked me up that the M16 at one point was made by a division of Mattel, the toy company, friends of mine who had served had a good laugh about that, for a variety of light and not so light reasons). 

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