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INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES OF THE UNITED STATES Including Consulting Research Laboratories EIGHTH EDITION 1946
BULLETIN OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 11 NUMBER 113 JULY 1946 INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES OF THE UNITED STATES Including Consulting Research Laboratories EIGHTH EDITION 1946 COMPILED BY CALLIE HULL WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF MARY TIMMS AND LOIS WILSON PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES WASHINGTON, D. C.
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PREFACE With the publication of Bulletin Number '113, the National Research Council issues the Eighth Edition of the directory, INDUSTRIAL RE- SEARCH LABORATORIES OF THE UNITED STATES. The first edition appeared in 1920 and contained a listing of 297 companies which maintained industrial research laboratories. With each new edition since that time, effort has been made to reach labora- tories not heretofore included as well as new laboratories more recently established. The technical press has cooperated by carrying notices of the forthcoming edition and in urging the consideration of the Council's offer to send a questionnaire to any company requesting one. A clipping of the previous entry was sent for revision to each of the 2,264 laboratories included in the 1940 edition. Requests were sent three times to companies from which no reply had been received, after which the entry was dropped from the new edition as no unrevised material is included. It should be noted that the number of companies in each edition is not necessarily a fair measure of the growth or decline, of industrial research over any period of time unless several factors, for example the absorption of one laboratory by another through merger or other means, are considered. The present situation in regard to the reconversion of laboratories to a peace-time basis both in activities and in staff was taken into considera- tion but the need for information which was more current than that of the 1940 edition was the deciding factor in compiling the Eighth Edition at this time. The data included in the Eighth Edition of the directory were received during the period August 1945 through January 1946. It is of interest to note the distribution by profession of the personnel employed in industrial research laboratories listed in this publication. The following table summarizes the data taken from the returned questionnaires. An estimated 5,000 may be added to the total since several large companies did not report the number of persons on their laboratory staffs. DISTRIBUTION OF RESEARCH PERSONNEL BY PROFESSION Chemists 21,005 Physicists 2,660 Biologists 1,659 Metallurgists 2,364 Engineers 20,637 Psychologists '. 22 Doctors of Medicine 236 Geologists 81 In other scientific professions (unclassified) 5,567 TOTAL SCIENTIFIC PERSONNEL 54,321 Technical personnel NOT included above 34,563 Combined number of administrative, clerical, maintenance, and similar personnel 44,631 TOTAL NUMBER OF LABORATORY PERSONNEL 133,515
An appendix has been included for the first time in this edition, listing colleges and universities which offer research service to industry. A letter, including a brief form asking for the name of the institution and the person to whom correspondence should be addressed, was sent to 800 universities and colleges. The list of 292 institutions given in the appendix contains the names of those which returned the form with the information as given. No further inquiry was made than this. In compiling this series of directories, the term research has been interpreted in accordance with the definition expressed in the first edition: Industrial research is the endeavor to learn how to apply scientific facts to the service of mankind. Many laboratories are engaged in both industrial research and industrial development. These two classes of investigation commonly merge so that no sharp boundary can be traced between them. Indeed, the term research is frequently applied to work which is nothing else than development of industrial processes, methods, equipment, production or by-products. Laboratories connected with federal, state, or municipal governments have not been included except in a few cases where it seemed that the work was so closely associated with industry that information would be of direct interest to companies undertaking research. With this in mind, the National Bureau of Standards has been included again, and, for the first time, the Regional Research Laboratories of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. University and college laboratories are not included except in the appendix. The directory carries three indexes: A Geographical Distribution of Laboratories; a Personnel Index (containing more than 7000 names) ; and a Subject Index of Research Activities. Mr. Raymond Stevens consented to act as Adviser in the compilation of this edition of the directory. He has been called upon for advice and for practical suggestions many times, and on each occasion has been most helpful in making difficult decisions and in suggesting ways and means for making the directory more usefu1. CALLIE HULL, Librarian National Research Council \\
GROWTH IN PERSONNEL OF INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES 140,000 TOTAL PERSONNEL 120,000 IOO.OOO 80,000 60.00O 40,000 20,000 PROFESSIONAL PERSONNEL NON-TECHNICAL PERSONNEL - TECHNICAL PERSONNEL 1 I 1946 1940 1946 I94O 1946 1940 1946 1940 III
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CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE v LIST OF LABORATORIES i APPENDIX. UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES OFFERING RESEARCH SERVICE TO INDUSTRY 349 INDEXES: I. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF LABORATORIES 359 2. PERSONNEL INDEX 369 3. SUBJECT INDEX TO RESEARCH ACTIVITIES 399
INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES OF THE UNITED STATES
