History of chemical technology

L. F. Haber, The Chemical Industry during the Nineteenth Century, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1958, 292 pp. T. K. Derry and T. 1. Williams, A Short History of Chemical Technology, Oxford University Press, Oxford, I960, 782 pp. 

A History of Chemical Technology and Chemical Engineering in India... 

Anthony S. Travis is deputy director of the Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he is also senior researcher in the history of technology. He has published widely on the history of chemical technology and the Channel tunnel project, and is series editor of the American Chemical Society-Chemical Heritage Foundation History of the Modem Chemical Sciences Series. ... 

John Kenly Smith, Jr. is Associate Professor of History at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is co-author with David A. Hounshell of Science and Corporate Strategy DuPont R D 1902-1980 (Cambridge University Press, 1988) and numerous articles on the history of chemical technology and industrial research. He is currently working on the history of chemical catalysis. 

The History of Chemical Technology. An Annotated Bibliography. New York ... 

On the basis of these new concepts, results may enable reinterpretation of already existing data. We shall have to evaluate these company histories from an independent point of view, not simply based on commemorative writings, and to define a general approach based on socioeconomic aspects, including the history of labour and political movements. There is a need to compare the industry to other industries, on an international scale, and reconstruct the events of a supranational market. We shall have to use and evaluate existing concepts such as professionalization,the life cycles of products, etc., in-depth and critically. And, last but not least, we should not forget the losers of the history of chemical technology, the companies that failed, the people who used to work for these chemical plants, and the small and medium-sized enterprises. 

A.E. Musson and E. Robinson, Science and Technology in the Industrial Revolution (Manchester, 1969) A. Clow and N.L. Clow, The Chemical Revolution (London, 1952) R.P. Multhauf, The History of Chemical Technology An Annotated Bibliography (New York, 1984). 

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. 

Iron (chemical symbol Fe, from the Latin name for the metal, ferrum), the most prominent of all the metals in the history of human technology, is a gray base metal that easily combines with oxygen and becomes corroded (Friend 1926). Its importance is most likely due to a number of factors ... 

Thies C. A short history of microencapsulation technology. In Arshady R, editor. Preparation and chemical applications. Vol. 1. MML series.London Citus Books 1999. pp. 47-54. 

Frederic Lawrence Holmes, Eighteenth-Century Chemistry as an Investigative Enterprise (Berkeley, California Office for History of Science Technology, University of California, 1989. Ursula Klein, Origin of the Concept of Chemical Compound, Science in Contexts 7 (1994) 163-204. Ursula Klein, E.F. Geoffroys Table of Different Rapports Observed Between Different Chemical Substances - A Reinterpretation, Amhix i (i995) ... 

Grison, Emmanuel, Michelle Goupil, and Patrice Bret, eds. A Scientific Correspondence during the Chemical Revolution. Berkeley, California University of California, Office of History of Science Technology, 1994. 

Case histories in journals such as Chemical Engineering Progress, Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering,... 

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