Across the High Technology Threshold
Author: Robert Solo
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780848262228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Solo
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780848262228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter J. T. Morris
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2017-01-30
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 151281816X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This history of the government-funded synthetic rubber research program (1942-1956) offers a rare analysis of a cooperative research program geared to the improvement of existing products and the creation of new ones. The founders of the program believed the best way to further research in the new field was through collaboration among corporations, universities, and the federal government. Morris concludes that, in fact, the effort was ultimately a failure and that vigorous competition proves the best way to stimulate innovation. Government programs, like the rubber research program, are far better at improving existing products, the author contends, than creating wholly new ones.
Author: M. Morton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-04-17
Total Pages: 643
ISBN-13: 9401729255
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →About ten years after the publication of the Second Edition (1973), it became apparent that it was time for an up-date of this book. This was especially true in this case, since the subject matter has traditionally dealt mainly with the structure, properties, and technology of the various elastomers used in industry, and these are bound to undergo significant changes over the period of a decade. In revising the contents of this volume, it was thought best to keep the orig inal format. Hence the first five chapters discuss the same general subject matter as before. The chapters dealing with natural rubber and the synthetic elastomers are up-dated, and an entirely new chapter has been added on the thermoplastic elastomers, which have, of course, grown tremendously in importance. Another innovation is the addition of a new chapter, "Miscellaneous Elastomers," to take care of "old" elastomers, e.g., polysulfides, which have decreased some what in importance, as well as to introduce some of the newly-developed syn thetic rubbers which have not yet reached high production levels. The editor wishes to express his sincere appreciation to all the contributors, without whose close cooperation this task would have been impossible. He would especially like to acknowledge the invaluable assistance of Dr. Howard Stephens in the planning of this book, and for his suggestion of suitable authors.
Author: Peter J. Morris
Publisher: Chemical Heritage Foundation
Published: 2005-06
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780941901031
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Accompanied by an introductory overview of the history of polymer science, this book contains biographical sketches of 12 pioneers, from Marcellin Berthollet and John Wesley Hyatt to Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta. It also includes time charts before each chapter that summarise significant events.
Author: Christopher Freeman
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780262561136
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the new chapters they deal with the international dimensions of technological change including underdevelopment, technology transfer, international trade, and globalization. They have also strengthened the historical account of the rise of new technologies, a main feature of earlier editions.