| The Making of American Industrial Research: Science and Business at GE and Bell, 1876 1926 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Reich, Leonard S. (Author), Leonard S., Reich (Author), Galambos, Louis (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521522374 ISBN-13: 9780521522373 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $37.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2002 Annotation: This book tells the story of how and why industrial research was established in America by two large and innovative corporations: General Electric, formed in a merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston in 1892, and the dominant force in the American electrical industry ever since; and American Telephone and Telegraph, the commercial outgrowth of Alexander Graham Bell??'s invention of the telephone. Important lessons can be drawn from the early efforts of these two corporations. Through industrial research - and particularly through the development of patented products and processes - large companies could begin to exert a new degree of market control by strongly influencing the rate and direction of technological change. The development of industrial research also had a profound impact on science and technology in America. It affected the content and methods of both by providing new opportunities, incentives, and constraints to the growing community of students and engineers. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - General - Business & Economics | Economic History - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 338.06 |
| Series: Studies in Economic History and Policy: USA in the Twentieth |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.12" W x 9.22" (1.10 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book tells the story of how and why industrial research was established in America by two large and innovative corporations: General Electric, formed in a merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston in 1892, and the dominant force in the American electrical industry ever since; and American Telephone and Telegraph, the commercial outgrowth of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone. Important lessons can be drawn from the early efforts of these two corporations. Through industrial research - and particularly through the development of patented products and processes - large companies could begin to exert a new degree of market control by strongly influencing the rate and direction of technological change. The development of industrial research also had a profound impact on science and technology in America. It affected the content and methods of both by providing new opportunities, incentives, and constraints to the growing community of students and engineers. |