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(Pretoria: CSIR, 1990) 0798849398. Presentation bookplate from the CSIR mounted to half-title. 4to; original black boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. xii + 352, incl. index; many portraits and other photographs, largely in monochrome, but with some colour. Dustwrapper curled to edges, with old tape marks, very scuffed on lower panel; recent archival tape repairs to reverse side; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper. Very good condition. "This story of the first 40 years of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is presented in three parts. The first includes the events leading up to its establishment in 1945 and discusses the need for such a body in South Africa as seen against the background of world events, notably the impact of two world wars and the emergence in other countries of organizations with specific responsibilities for co-ordinating and developing scientific research. It continues as a chronological narrative of events…
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- Title The CSIR The First 40 Years
- Author Kingwell, D.G.
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher (Pretoria: CSIR, 1990) 0798849398, Pretoria
- Date 1990
- ISBN 9780798849395
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