History of chemical engineering

Landau, R., and Rosenberg, N. (1990). America s Higli-Tech Triumph. Invention Technology. Fall 58-63. Lewis. H. C. (1980). W. K. Lewis. Teacher. In History of Chemical Engineering, edited by W. F. Furter. Washington, DC American Chemical Society. 

The two forms of explanation are not mutually exclusive. See Guedon, Jean-Claude. In "History of Chemical Engineering" Furter, William F., Ed.. American Chemical Society Washington, 1980 pp. 45-75. 

Despite its present stage of relative infancy, the history of chemical engineering already harbors a number of important themes. One of them is that chemical engineering, as this word is now used in the United States and a number of other countries, refers to a disciplinary and professional structure which saw its original cognitive foundations based on a new notion - that of unit operations. This point has been developed elsewhere (1) but it will be useful to summarize some of the main elements of this story to provide a suitable backdrop for the present paper. 

Harold F. Williamson et at.. The American Petroleum Industry. The Age of Energy 1899-1959, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 111., 1963, in particular Chapter 4, Refining in Transition. On the situation in Jersey Standard and the postwar creation of the department that became Standard Oil Development Co., see Edward J. Gomowski, The History of Chemical Engineering at Exxon, pp. 303-311 in W. F. Furter, ed., History of Chemical Engineering [3],... 

J.-C. Guedon, Conceptual and Institutional Obstacles to the Emergence of Unit Operations in Europe, in W.F. Furter (Ed.), History of Chemical Engineering, Advances in Chemistry Series no. 190, ACS, Washington, 1980. 

R.R. Rothfus, The History of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1982. 

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