Carbon Stripper Foils -- Lifetime Measurements on Carbon Stripper Foils -- An Attempt to Improve the Lifetime of Carbon Foils -- Experience with Foil Strippers in the Chalk River MP Tandem Accelerator -- Heavy Ion Stripping by Wrinkled Carbon Foils -- A Review of Methods to Prepare Self-Supporting Carbon Targets and of their Importance in Accelerator Experiments -- Graphitization of Carbon Stripper Foils -- Transmittance vs. Wavelength for Unsupported Carbon Foils -- Lifetimes of Carbon Foils Deposited on Etched Substrates -- A Review of Development Work on Carbon Stripper Foils at Daresbury and Harwell -- Special Target Preparation Methods -- Preparation of Thick, Uniform Foils for Range and Range Straggle Measurements -- History of Target and Special Sample Preparation at the Central Bureau for Nuclear Measurements -- Special Nuclear Target Preparation at CBNM -- Preparation of Ce-Targets -- Preparation and Testing of Ferromagnetic Fe, Co, and Isotopic Gd Foils -- Thick Noble Gas Targets Prepared by Ion Implantation -- Improved Polyimide Foils for Nuclear Targets -- Rolling of Evaporated Magnesium Isotopes -- Ceramic and Cermet Targets -- Dry Settling and Pressing at IUCF -- Preparation of 14C-Targets by Cracking of 14CH3-J -- Preparation of Self-Supporting Holmium Targets -- General Target Preparation Methods -- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule-Switzerland -- Rolling of Sensitive Target Foils being Coated with Evaporated Metal Layers -- Past and Present Target Making Activities in Laboratories in the United Kingdom -- Preparation of Nuclear Targets at the Institute of Atomic Energy -- Université Louis Pasteur-France -- Other Topics Related to Target -- The Modular Target Transportation and Storage Facility, VAC -- The Recovery of Metallic Mercury -- New England Nuclear Corporation -- Historical Summary of Target Technology and the International Nuclear Target Development Society -- Sources of Separated Isotopes for Nuclear Targetry -- Reduction of TiO2, ZrO2, and HfO2 for Target Preparation -- Target Techniques Applied to ?-Spectroscopy with Heavy Ions -- Experience with Thin Havar Foils for Cyclotron Target Windows -- Human Factors of Safe Target Handling -- Methods to Reduce Contamination in Targets Prepared by Vacuum Deposition.