| Description |
1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index. |
| Contents |
The institutionalization of innovation, 1900-90 -- The internal combustion engine -- Chemicals -- Electric power -- The electronics revolution, 1947-90 -- Concluding observations. |
| Summary |
"The authors focus on three areas of innovation that have dominated American technology in this century: the internal combustion engine, electricity/electronics, and chemistry. These three clusters of innovation are also highly research-intensive, allowing Mowery and Rosenberg to explore the importance of both "science" and technological innovation and improvement in realizing the economic consequences of technological advances. The cases of chemicals and the internal combustion engine also offer a lesson in the influence of geography and available resources on technological development." "Throughout their book, Mowery and Rosenberg demonstrate that the simultaneous emergence of new engineering and applied science disciplines in the universities in tandem with growth in the R & D industry and scientific research has been a primary factor in the rapid rate of technological change."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Technology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Technology. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Internal combustion engines -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Internal combustion engines. |
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Electrical engineering -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Electrical engineering. |
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Chemical engineering -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Chemical engineering. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Rosenberg, Nathan, 1927-2015.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mowery, David C. Paths of innovation. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998 0521641195 (DLC) 98028901 (OCoLC)39323117 |
| ISBN |
0511001274 (electronic book) |
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9780511001277 (electronic book) |
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9780511611957 (electronic book) |
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0511611951 (electronic book) |
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0521641195 (hardbound) |
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9780521641197 |
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0521646537 |
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9780521646536 |
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