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Hounshell, David A., and Smith, John Kenley, Science and Corporate Strategy DuPont R D, 1902-1980, Cambridge University Press, 1988. 

Hounshell, David A., and John Kenly Smith, Jr. The Nylon Drama. Invention and Technology, Fall, 1988 40—55. 

Hounshell, David A. The Evolution of Industrial Research in the United States. In U.S. Research at the End of an Era, edited by Richard S. Rosenbloom and William J. Spencer, 13-85. Boston Harvard Business School Press, 1996. 

I am also very grateful to those who read and critiqued this chapter, including the late Arthur Andy Anderson, Otto T. Benfey, Jean Colley, Yasu Furukawa, Gerald N. Grob, Gilbert Haighat, David A. Hounshell, Joseph Labovsky, Robert M. Secor, John Kenley Smith, Jr., and Audrey Weitkamp. 

Hagley Museum and Library is the richest repository of material about Carothers scientific career. Marjorie McNinch was particularly helpful during my visit. Hagley s collection includes the correspondence between Carothers and Du Pont about his hiring, Carothers notebooks, Carothers letters to his close friend, John R. Johnson and transcripts of interviews conducted with Carothers associates by David A. Hounshell and John Kenley Smith, Jr., and by Adeline C. Strange. 

Transcripts of interviews conducted by David A. Hounshell and John Kenley Smith, Jr., are in HML 1878. They were conducted with, among others ... 

David A. Hounshell. Interpreting the History of Industrial Research and Development The Case of E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Co. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 134 (Dec. 1990) 387-407. Source for Thome s saving Carothers papers. 

John K. Smith and David A. Hounshell. Wallace H. Carothers and Fundamental Research at DuPont. Science. 229 (Aug. 2, 1985) 436-442. Source for Neoprene research abundant in quantity Hill discovers fibers and cold drawing problems with polyester ring compounds it is expected to pay. .. and credit to Bolton for shrewd nudge. 

John K. Smith, Developing a Discipline Chemical Engineering Research at Du Pont, in David A. Hounshell and J. K. Smith, Science and Corporate Strategy Du Pont R D, 1902-1980, Chapter 14, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988 (kindly made available in advance of publication) Charles M. A. Stine, Chemical Engineering in Modem Industry, Trans. AIChE 21,45-54 (1928). 

The best example is the study of research at Du Pont. See David A. Hounshell and John K. Smith, Jr., Science and Corporate Strategy. Du Pont R D, 1902-1980 (Cambridge, Mass. Cambridge University Press, 1988). For the German case see John Joseph Beer, Coal tar dye manufacture and the origins of the modern industrial research laboratory, Isis, 49 (1958), 123-131 Georg Meyer-Thurow, The... 

Report from Bolton to Crane, 11 June 1936, K. I. du Pont Co. Inc. records, series II, part 2, box 1038, Ilagley Museum and Library. I thank David Hounshell for drawing my attention to this document. 

David A. Hounshell, From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932 the Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States (Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press, passim John K. Brown, The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1915 A Study in American Industrial Practice (Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995). Brown finds no unique features in the American context of the capital goods sector. 

Tom E Moock, Jim G Nourse, David Grier and W Douglas Hounshell Molecular Design Limited, 2132 Farallon Drive, San Leandro, Ca 94577, U.S.A. 

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. 

Thanks are also due to three individuals who participated fully in the conference but whose names do not appear in this book s table of contents. Seymour H. Mauskopf, David Hounshell, and Wolfram Fischer served as commentators on papers presented for Parts I, II, and III, respectively. Not only their formal comments but also their presence added much to the vitality and rigor of our discussions, and all of us are indebted to their thoughtful criticism and reflections on the issues. 

David Hounshell, "The dialectics of new materials On the relationship between natural fibers, new knowledge, and synthetic fibers, c. 1840-c. 1960" in Gerald L. Geison, ed.. The dialectics of materials (Princeton, 1995). 

The second "discussion" Td like to emphasize is related to the first, and centers around the process of "internationalization" of the chemical industry in the course of the twentieth century. Kudo, Marsch, Steen, and Margit Szollosi-Janze all stressed the role of World War I in this regard, something underscored by David Hounshell in his commentary during the confer-... 

James G. Nourse, W. Douglas Hounshell, Burton A. Leland, Alan J. Gushurst, and David G. Raich. 

From the Hagley Program at the University of Delaware, I would first like to thank David Hounshell, my primary adviser and mentor. Thanks as well to John Beer, Anne Boylan, Reed Geiger, Peter Kolchin, and David Shearer, all of whom demonstrated that professors could metamorphose into friends. I am grateful to Chuck Grench, Paul Betz, and others at the University of North Carolina Press for assisting in the publication of this book. 

Aniline division, particularly in research. At Du Pont, as David Hounshell and John Smith have shown, the investment in organic chemicals research that began with dyes branched out in newer and more profitable directions. Given the dyes market, Weber s decision was logical and defensible, but one that kept Allied out of the new organic products. 

A rich literature on Du Pont exists, including Alfred Chandler s works and Science and Corporate Strategy by David A. Hounshell and John K. Smith. On Du Pont s organization, see Chandler, Strategy and Structure, chap. 2 Chandler, Scale and Scope, 181-90 Smith, National Goals, Industry Structure, and Corporate Strategies, 130-61. 

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