Author : Jeffrey Louis Sturchio
Publisher : Chemical Heritage Foundation
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780941901024
Three essays--on the historiography of the chemical process industries, on business archives, and on oral history in the corporate setting--provide the context for extensive annotated bibliographies in the three areas
Author : Fred Aftalion
Publisher : Chemical Heritage Foundation
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,25 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780941901291
Fred Aftalion's international perspective of the history of chemistry integrates the story of chemical science with that of chemical industry. This new edition includes events from 1990 to 2000, when major companies began selling off their divisions, seeking to specialize in a particular business. Aftalion explores the pitfalls these companies encountered as well as the successes of "contrarians"--those companies that remained broad and diversified. He uses BASF, Dow, and Bayer as examples of true contrarians.
Author : Jeffrey L. Sturchio
Publisher :
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Kathryn Steen
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1469612909
American Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry: War and Politics, 1910-1930
Author : Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674029372
The dean of business historians continues his masterful chronicle of the transforming revolutions of the twentieth century begun in Inventing the Electronic Century. Alfred Chandler argues that only with consistent attention to research and development and an emphasis on long-term corporate strategies could firms remain successful over time. He details these processes for nearly every major chemical and pharmaceutical firm, demonstrating why some companies forged ahead while others failed. By the end of World War II, the chemical and pharmaceutical industries were transformed by the commercializing of new learning, the petrochemical and the antibiotic revolutions. But by the 1970s, chemical science was no longer providing the new learning necessary to commercialize more products, although new directions flourished in the pharmaceutical industries. In the 1980s, major drug companies, including Eli Lilly, Merck, and Schering Plough, commercialized the first biotechnology products, and as the twenty-first century began, the infrastructure of this biotechnology revolution was comparable to that of the second industrial revolution just before World War I and the information revolution of the 1960s. Shaping the Industrial Century is a major contribution to our understanding of the most dynamic industries of the modern era.
Author : Louis Galambos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521871050
This book, first published in 2007, offers a comparative analysis of the performance of the chemical industry in the age of the petrochemical revolution.
Author : Ernst Homburg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,50 MB
Release : 1998-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780792348894
Europe is the cradle of the modem international chemical industry. From the middle of the nineteenth century until the outbreak of World War I, the European chemical industry influenced not only the production and control of science and technology, but also made significant contributions towards economic development, as well as bringing about profound changes in working and living enviromnents. It is a highly complex heritage, both rich and threatening, that calls for close scrutinity. Fortunately, a unique opportunity to explore the historical development of the European chemical industry from a variety of novel standpoints, was made possible during 1993 as part of the European Science Foundation (ESF) programme called 'The Evolution of Chemistry in Europe, 1789-1939.' This process of exploration has taken place through three workshops, each dealing with different time periods. The workshop concerned with the period 1850-1914, which corresponds roughly to the so-called Second Industrial Revolution, was held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, on 23-25 March 1995. This volume is the outcome of that workshop. The other workshops dealing with European chemical industry were held in Liege in 1994, covering the First Industrial Revolution period, 1789-1850, and Strasbourg in 1996, covering the period between the two World Wars.
Author : Colin Archibald Russell
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780854045990
There have been several attempts to write the history of Britain's chemical industry as a whole, and countless others concentrating on individual companies. Some have looked at the technical aspects of the industry, whilst others have addressed economic issues. Few have, however, attempted to analyse the effects of the chemical industry on society in general. The current environmental crisis can only be fully understood in the light of its history. This is the first such book to look critically at the whole development of industrial chemistry in the UK in the context of its effects on the environment. No one from industry, government or academia can afford to be unaware of the historical roots of our present dilemma. Industrial chemists can take heart from the realization that their predecessors were remarkably aware of the problems and often found satisfactory solutions. Industrial chemistry has traditionally been seen as the great 'polluter'. Without any attempts at 'whitewash' this book puts the record straight. From academic chemist to industrialist to politician, Chemistry, Society and Environment: A New History of the British Chemical Industry will be of relevance to all those concerned with the social and environmental impact of the chemical industry.
Author : John E. Lesch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9401593779
In the twentieth century, dyes, pharmaceuticals, photographic products, explosives, insecticides, fertilizers, synthetic rubber, fuels, and fibers, plastics, and other products have flowed out of the chemical industry and into the consumer economies, war machines, farms, and medical practices of industrial societies. The German chemical industry has been a major site for the development and application of the science-based technologies that gave rise to these products, and has had an important role as exemplar, stimulus, and competitor in the international chemical industry. This volume explores the German chemical industry's scientific and technological dimension, its international connections, and its development after 1945. The authors relate scientific and technological change in the industry to evolving German political and economic circumstances, including two world wars, the rise and fall of National Socialism, the post-war division of Germany, and the emergence of a global economy. This book will be of interest to historians of modern Germany, to historians of science and technology, and to business and economic historians.
Author : Imperial Chemical Industries Limited
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 1939
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