The Making of American Industrial Research: Science and Business at GE and Bell, 1976-1926 by Reich, Leonard S - 1985

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1985 Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. xvi, 309 pp, list of 25 b&w illustrations, editor's preface, preface, 1. Introduction: The Importance of Industrial Research; 2. Building the Foundations of Industrial Research: American Science, Technology, and Industry in the 19th Century; 3. The Establishment and Early Growth of General Electric; 4. Origins and Early History of the General Electric Research Laboratory; 5. General Electric: The Research Process; 6. The Establishment and Early Growth of Bell Telephone; 7. AT&T: The Establishment of Industrial Research; 8. AT&T: The Research Process; 9. Research, Patents, and the Struggle to Control Radio; 10. Conclusion: The Impact of Industrial Research; notes, index. Studies in Economic History and Policy series: First Edition, 1985. "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. Through industrial research and 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, affecting the content and methods of both by providing new opportunities, incentives, and constraints to the growing community of students and engineers." Price clipped. Minor edge wear spine dj, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Yellowish orange cloth with black paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to front board, and black title plate and gilt lettering to spine..