Academic Chemistry in America, 1876-1976
Author | : P. Thomas Carroll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1102 |
Release | : 1982 |
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Author | : P. Thomas Carroll |
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Total Pages | : 1102 |
Release | : 1982 |
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Author | : A. Thackray |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9401511241 |
This study is an outgrowth of our interest in the history of modern chemistry. The paucity of reliable, quantitative knowledge about past science was brought home forcibly to us when we undertook a research seminar in the comparative history of modern chemistry in Britain, Germany, and the United States. That seminar, which took place at the University of Pennsylvania in the spring of 1975, was paralleled by one devoted to the work of the "Annales School". The two seminars together catalyzed the attempt to construct historical measures of change in aspects of one science, or "chem ical indicators". The present volume displays our results. Perhaps our labors may be most usefully compared with the work of those students of medieval science who devote their best efforts to the establish ment of texts. Only when acceptable texts have been constructed from fragmentary and corrupt sources can scholars move on to the more satisfying business of making history. So too in the modern period, a necessary pre liminary to the full history of any scientific profession is the establishing of reliable quantitative information in the form of statistical series. This volume does not offer history. Instead it provides certain element- indicators -- that may be useful to individuals interested in the history of American chemistry and chemical industry, and suggestive for policy.
Author | : Robert Bud |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Chemistry |
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Author | : P. Thomas Carroll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 569 |
Release | : 1982 |
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Author | : American Chemical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Chemistry |
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Author | : National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1442 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : |
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Author | : Marc Rothenberg |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 637 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135583188 |
This Encyclopedia examines all aspects of the history of science in the United States, with a special emphasis placed on the historiography of science in America. It can be used by students, general readers, scientists, or anyone interested in the facts relating to the development of science in the United States. Special emphasis is placed in the history of medicine and technology and on the relationship between science and technology and science and medicine.
Author | : Kathryn Steen |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2014-08-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1469612917 |
Prior to 1914, Germany dominated the worldwide production of synthetic organic dyes and pharmaceuticals like aspirin. When World War I disrupted the supply of German chemicals to the United States, American entrepreneurs responded to the shortages and high prices by trying to manufacture chemicals domestically. Learning the complex science and industry, however, posed a serious challenge. This book explains how the United States built a synthetic organic chemicals industry in World War I and the 1920s. Kathryn Steen argues that Americans' intense anti-German sentiment in World War I helped to forge a concentrated effort among firms, the federal government, and universities to make the United States independent of "foreign chemicals." Besides mobilization efforts to make high explosives and war gases, federal policies included protective tariffs, gathering and publishing market information, and, most dramatically, confiscation of German-owned chemical subsidiaries and patents. Meanwhile, firms and universities worked hard to develop scientific and manufacturing expertise. Against a backdrop of hostilities and intrigue, Steen shows how chemicals were deeply entwined with national and international politics and policy during the war and subsequent isolationism of the turbulent early twentieth century.
Author | : William Hodson Brock |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 786 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780393320688 |
From alchemy to industry, this authoritative volume is a synthetic history of chemistry through the ages, from its development as a scientific philosophy to its modern-day practical applications. A "New York Times" Notable Book. of illustrations.
Author | : Peter J. Ramberg |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2023-12-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1350251550 |
A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century covers the period from 1815 to 1914 and the birth of modern chemistry. The elaboration of atomic theory - and new ideas of periodicity, structure, bonding, and equilibrium - emerged in tandem with new instruments and practices. The chemical industry expanded exponentially, fuelled by an increasing demand for steel, aluminium, dyestuffs, pharmaceuticals, and consumer goods. And the chemical laboratory became established in its two distinct modern settings of the university and industry. At the turn of the century, the discovery of radioactivity took hold of the public imagination, drawing chemistry closer to physics, even as it threatened to undermine the whole concept of atomism. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Chemistry presents the first comprehensive history from the Bronze Age to today, covering all forms and aspects of chemistry and its ever-changing social context. The themes covered in each volume are theory and concepts; practice and experiment; laboratories and technology; culture and science; society and environment; trade and industry; learning and institutions; art and representation. Peter J. Ramberg is Professor of the History of Science at Truman State University, USA. Volume 5 in the Cultural History of Chemistry set. General Editors: Peter J. T. Morris, University College London, UK, and Alan Rocke, Case Western Reserve University, USA.