Henry Clayton

Gebr. Sachsenberg in Rosslau/Elbe (Germany) build the first expression rolls machine in Germany Henry Clayton introduces a double-acting piston extruder at the London World Exhibition De Wolfe builds an extruder in USA for cable sheathing Lipowitz carries out first trials for heating the clay with a double-walled extrusion barrel... 

Robert L. Lichter, The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation I found your notion of disequilibrium intriguing. There was a book published in 1997 called The Innovator s Dilemma, by Harvard business school professor Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business School Press), which offers similar ideas in the context of technical innovation. He discusses the concept of disruptive technologies, the notion that real change is made when new concepts actually challenge existing views of what is useful and important. I can see connections there with your points. 

Engler TA, Malhotra S, Burkholder TP, Henry JR, Mendel D, Porter WJ, Furness K, Diefenbacher C, Marquart A, Reel JK, Li Y, Clayton J, Cunningham B, McLean J, O Toole JC, Brozinick J, Hawkins E, Misener E, Briere D, Brier RA, Wagner JR,... 

Cellulose was first discovered in 1819 by the French naturalist Henri Braconnot (1781-1855). The compound was first isolated and analyzed fifteen years later by the French botanist Anselme Payen (1795-1871), who gave it its modern name of cellulose based on its origin ( cell ) plus the suffix -ose. The earliest chemical studies of cellulose were conducted by a team of English chemists, Charles Frederick Cross (1855-1935), Edward John Bevan (1856-1921), and Clayton Beadle (1868-1917), who identified the compound we now know as cellulose and reported on its structure and properties in the 1890s and early 1900s. 

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