Quaker values

So the college concluded as did Swarthmore, that engineering was compatible with Quaker values, with social and civic responsibility and that indeed there were dimensions of engineering that could contribute very effectively to a liberal arts curriculum. Both these institutions recognized the value associated with the making of work, and with the role that engineering can play in linking across the disciplines to address critical human social issues. 

The first synthetic thermosets used as adhesives were phenol-formaldehyde resins produced at the end of the nineteenth eentury, historically linked to Baekeland s process which attained industrial status at the beginning of the twentieth century [4], Furanic condensates appeared mueh later as a result of the marketing of 2. They were first used as foundry binders by Quaker Oats in 1960. The use of furanic resins in the aerospace industry began ten years later. Although furanic resins represent a mere 1 % of the total thermoset produetion, the high added-value of these materials amply justifies their use. In fact, furan-based adhesives and binders are fire-, solvent-, and acid- or alkali-resistant. They are known, however, to display two main drawbacks related to their sensitivity to shrinkage and oxidation. 

It was clear, then, who among scientists judged the value of scientific results every member of the group, as in a Quaker meeting. The authority of scientific opinion remains essentially mutual it is established between scientists, not above them. There were leading scientists, scientists who worked with unusual fertility at the growing points of their fields but science had no ultimate leaders. Consensus ruled. 

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