Industrial activities Revolution

The use of renewable resources as raw materials for technical applications is not at all new. Mankind has already used natural materials in the early civilizations in order to meet their basic needs, and the first industrial activities were also largely based on the use of renewable resources [1], This continued until the begirming of the industrial revolution. 

Early Activities. Historically, quahty was entmsted to the artisan, who was solely responsible for the products made. Thus financial success often rested on product quahty. The industrial revolution replaced this system with one in which product quahty was the result of the combined efforts of a group of factory workers. Quahty was ensured through the combination of worker skills and production supervisor monitoring. 

As the drug discovery process increased in intensity in the mid- to late 20th century, primarily as a result of the major screening and chemical synthetic efforts in the pharmaceutical industry in industrialized countries worldwide, but also as a result of the biotechnology revolution, the need for increased sophistication and efficacy in (1) how to discover new drugs, (2) how to reproducibly prepare bulk chemicals, (3) how to determine the activity and safety of new drug candidates in preclinical animal models prior to their... 

In the last decade use of modem biotechnology has caused a revolution in the detergent industry. Newly developed enzymes with higher activities and stabilities have become available. In addition to improving the properties of enzymes, biotechnologists are also... 

Interest in crown ethers has exploded since the initial discovery by Pedersen. With the addition of cryptands and other macropolycycles to the armory of coordination chemists there has been feverish activity to seek out new areas in which new and original uses can be devised. Now all branches of chemistry, polymer science, pharmaceutics and industrial processes have been touched by the crown ether revolution. 

Man s activities since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution have increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels through the... 

The composition of the atmosphere remained more or less the same for millions of years. But the Industrial Revolution marked the beginning of man s activities introducing slow but definite changes. In the last fifty years or so changes in the levels of minor gases in the atmosphere have become alarming. Industries and our ways of living directly affect the air around us. 

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