Images of Progress. Three episodes in the development of research policy in the UK electrical engineering industry

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Investigates research policy, notably the development and function of scientific research, in the electrical engineering industry focusing especially on the experience of Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co Ltd and Associated Electrical Engineering Ltd. Deals in particular with relationship between industrial research and research institutions outside the firm and the impact on this of the 'orientation and career aspirations of scientists employed in industry'. Chapters include: 'Background to Industrial research in Metropolitan Vickers and Associated Electrical Industries'; 'The orientation of industrial scientists'; 'Interwar relationship between Metropolitan Vickers and Cambridge University'; 'The AEI Central Research Laboratory at Aldermaston and its relationship with AERE, Harwell, c1947-1953'; 'Proposal for joint research between AEI, GEC and English Electric'; 'Conclusions - science and the corporate image'