Studies in Innovation in the Steel and Chemical Industries
Details:
- Author(s) Allen, James A
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1967
- Pages 246pp; illus
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Place Published Manchester
Topics:
- Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Written by a professor of chemistry and comprises three 'self contained' studies of three major inventions/innovations centred in the UK - polythene, terylene and oxygen steelmaking - each of which follows the same structure. The study is based on 'the premise that meaningful studies of this kind should be related in some depth to the science, technology and industrial art from which they emerged, and projected against their contemporary economic, social and political background'. By way of example, the section of polythene is organised in the following sections, viz: 'Industrial prehistory', 'Scientific prehistory, 1876-1919', 'Discovery of polythene, 1919-35'; 'Development of polythene manufacture, 1936-39', 'Polythene in the Second World War'; 'High density polythene'; 'Commentary and discuss' re the innovation process. Much re Brunner Mond & Co Ltd and ICI Ltd re polythene; Calico Printers' Association Ltd re terylene