Since World War I, the Natuurkundig Laboratorium has been a crucial center of industrial
research for Philips, one of the world's largest electronics companies. In this study, Marc J …

The papers contained in this volume were presented at the Nobel Symposium which marked
the eightieth anniversary of the first award of the Nobel prizes in 1901. Leading scholars …

This paper compares the Philips Research Department and the Research Laboratory of the
American company General Electric (GE). 1 It argues that it is, above all, the issue of the …

THE CREATION OF INSTITUTIONS for the direct application of scientific theory and methods
to industrial problems has been a prominent aspect of the development of science during …

The complex patterns in which science relates to both technology and industry have long
provided grist for the mills of philosophers, sociologists, and historians of technology. 1 …

The essays in this volume arise from papers given at the conference on" Technological
change" at Rhodes House and Wadham College, Oxford, from 8 to 11 September 1993 …

To the Editor: Robert P. Multhauf has written a useful paper tnTechnology and Cul ture
which points the way toward certain basic questions which can be posed about the history of …

There were no established research laboratories before the nineteenth century. Galileo had
a small shop, Hooke was a curator of instruments, Boyle worked at home, Newton in his …

Surprisingly little attention has been given hitherto to the definition of the laboratory. A space
has to be specially adapted to deserve that title. It would be easy to assume that the two …

Only an attentive stockholder would have noticed the item. It was buried near the bottom of
the Report of the Third Vice President of the General Electric Company, in that firm's 1902 …