industrial research laboratory Concepts

True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color--From Azure to Zinc Pink

by Kory Stamper · 30 Mar 2026 · 354pp · 96,619 words

. The King of Color. Pantone, 2007. Howard, Ian P. “Guest Editorial: The Helmholtz-Hering Debate in Retrospect.” Perception 28 (1999): 543–49. Hull, Callie, ed. Industrial Research Laboratories of the United States, Including Consulting Research Laboratories. 8th ed. Bulletin of the National Research Council 113. National Academy of Sciences, 1946. doi.org/10

Tesla: Man Out of Time

by Margaret Cheney · 1 Jan 1981 · 478pp · 131,657 words

dwarf, was almost deported as an indigent alien. He somehow squeaked through and went on to become the resident genius of General Electric’s first industrial research laboratory at Schenectady. He would later strive to develop an acceptable alternative to Tesla’s alternating-current system when Edison and General Electric needed to play

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operators was swiftly passing. Edison himself, as one of the last of the “independents,” was a transitional figure who built the first of the large industrial research laboratories, setting the style for modern science. Tesla’s lifelong distaste for corporate involvement was twofold: most other engineers drove him mad with impatience, and he

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beginning to perceive what a garden of earthly delights government-sponsored research could be. Oddly enough it was to be Edison, creator of the modern industrial research laboratory, who threw a spanner into their dreams. His first utterance as head of the Naval Consulting Board was that he did not think “scientific research

The Power Makers

by Maury Klein · 26 May 2008 · 782pp · 245,875 words

Gerard Swope.28 Elihu Thomson continued his dual role as scholar and research scientist for General Electric until 1900, when the company finally established its industrial research laboratory. At that moment he terminated his career as an inventor without a murmur of regret. During the 1890s Thomson did extensive research and development work

Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech

by Sally Smith Hughes

Goeddel then signed employment agreements, giving Genentech title to all inventions and protecting the company from unauthorized disclosure of proprietary information, a routine practice in industrial research labs.30 GENENTECH’S HUMAN INSULIN PROJECT Late in 1977, perhaps through the somatostatin publicity, Lilly’s Irving Johnson learned of a new contender—an unprepossessing

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history, 2001/2002, 11. 28Kleid oral history, 2001/2002, 25. 29Kleid, telephone conversation with author, October 2, 2007. 30Since the early twentieth century, major American industrial research laboratories had required their scientists to assign research rights to the company. See Wise 1980. 31For a lively account of the contest for insulin at Harvard

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School Press. Rabinow, Paul. 1996. Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Reich, Leonard S. 1985. The Making of the American Industrial Research Laboratory: Science and Business at GE and Bell, 1876–1926. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reimers, Niels. 1987. “Tiger by the Tail.” Chemtech (August): 464–71. Rifkin

Masterminds of Programming: Conversations With the Creators of Major Programming Languages

by Federico Biancuzzi and Shane Warden · 21 Mar 2009 · 496pp · 174,084 words

but to communicate. What he saw was that the researchers at MIT had built up a set of relationships with other academic and a few industrial research labs around the country and he went to visit all of them, found them to be exceptionally bright people. They were at places like Caltech, UCLA

Architects of Intelligence

by Martin Ford · 16 Nov 2018 · 586pp · 186,548 words

, where I got a PhD in Computer Science, doing mostly compiler optimization work. I went on to work for DEC in Palo Alto in their industrial research lab, before joining a startup—I lived in Silicon Valley, and that was the thing to do! Eventually, I ended up at Google back when it

Piracy : The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates

by Adrian Johns · 5 Jan 2010 · 636pp · 202,284 words

national survival. “In our modern electrical civilization,” he warned, “our commercial survival depends upon the attention given to electrical subjects.” The big new U.S. industrial research laboratories could swamp any British rivals in their field. The only way to compete with them was to do something different – and the way to do

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the 1920s–1930s than it was later to become. What there was of it was in any case tempted to follow the lead of the industrial research laboratories. The conviction that science and property were antithetical, too, was far from universal. In 1923 the League of Nations seriously proposed instituting a property right

The Billion-Dollar Molecule

by Barry Werth · 543pp · 163,997 words

.S. Steel and making Carnegie the world’s richest man. Thomas Edison moved to Menlo Park, New Jersey, in 1876, establishing his first full-scale industrial research laboratory, combining electrical and chemical labs with an experimental machine shop. He was twenty-nine. Three years later he invented the carbon-filament lamp, then three

Computer: A History of the Information Machine

by Martin Campbell-Kelly and Nathan Ensmenger · 29 Jul 2013 · 528pp · 146,459 words

-of-a-kind digital computing machines. There were at least ten such machines constructed during this period, not only by government organizations but also by industrial research laboratories such as those of AT&T and RCA, as well as the technical departments of office-machine companies such as Remington Rand, NCR, and IBM

From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry

by Martin Campbell-Kelly · 15 Jan 2003

; however, R&D plays markedly different roles in these two industries. In the pharmaceutical industry, much of the R&D takes place in university and industrial research laboratories, and field trials are directed by PhD-qualified scientists. In the software industry, most of the R&D is done by youthful programmers, usually not