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From page 96... ... Even within the realm of science itself engineers can point to the crucial role of technology. Melvin Kranzberg, developing an argument first advanced by the late Derek Price, has suggested that much of modem science, especially in those fields that depend on elaborate instrumentation, should be seen as applied, or perhaps theo Read the entire page →
From page 97... ... Jeffrey Sturchio's description of the American chemical community's response to the crisis created by the cutoff of German synthetic organic chemicals during World War I is a case study in the successful mediation of the differences between science and engineering, whereas lames Hansen's account of the troubled career of the aeronautical engineer Max Munk at the Langley Research Station can be read as a case in which science and engineering failed to adapt to one another. Both stories should be instructive for those concerned with making the best use of the resources of both science and engineering. Read the entire page →
From page 98... ... The crisis these actions created in the American chemical community generated a response that was so well grounded and successful that 10 years later U.S. production of synthetic organic chemicals had been increased tenfold and long-term control of the market in these chemicals was firmly in the hands of the U.S. Read the entire page →
From page 99... ... during the late 1920s." It was also an era in which the agenda for chemical research in the universities was set largely-by the needs of industry: "In the 1920s those departments, such as Columbia University's Department of Chemical Engineering and the University of Illinois' Department of Chemistry, that had very close ties with industry through consultancies, fellowships and other mechanisms, found themselves prospering in ways that other departments did not." This was also the era in which chemical engineering achieved a position of distinction and prominence within American higher education. The crisis in synthetic organic chemicals, and the rapid professional and institutional growth it helped stimulate, occurred just as Arthur D Read the entire page →
From page 100... ... Hansen has therefore looked more deeply into the nature and origin of Munk's attitudes end behavior, which appeared so eccentric in the Langley setting. For our purposes, this perception of eccentricity can be characterized as a cultural dissonance that arose when Munk's approach to engineering came into conflict with the practice of the Langley engineers. Read the entire page →

From page 96...

... Even within the realm of science itself engineers can point to the crucial role of technology. Melvin Kranzberg, developing an argument first advanced by the late Derek Price, has suggested that much of modem science, especially in those fields that depend on elaborate instrumentation, should be seen as applied, or perhaps theo

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From page 97...

... Jeffrey Sturchio's description of the American chemical community's response to the crisis created by the cutoff of German synthetic organic chemicals during World War I is a case study in the successful mediation of the differences between science and engineering, whereas lames Hansen's account of the troubled career of the aeronautical engineer Max Munk at the Langley Research Station can be read as a case in which science and engineering failed to adapt to one another. Both stories should be instructive for those concerned with making the best use of the resources of both science and engineering.

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From page 98...

... The crisis these actions created in the American chemical community generated a response that was so well grounded and successful that 10 years later U.S. production of synthetic organic chemicals had been increased tenfold and long-term control of the market in these chemicals was firmly in the hands of the U.S.

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From page 99...

... during the late 1920s." It was also an era in which the agenda for chemical research in the universities was set largely-by the needs of industry: "In the 1920s those departments, such as Columbia University's Department of Chemical Engineering and the University of Illinois' Department of Chemistry, that had very close ties with industry through consultancies, fellowships and other mechanisms, found themselves prospering in ways that other departments did not." This was also the era in which chemical engineering achieved a position of distinction and prominence within American higher education. The crisis in synthetic organic chemicals, and the rapid professional and institutional growth it helped stimulate, occurred just as Arthur D

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From page 100...

... Hansen has therefore looked more deeply into the nature and origin of Munk's attitudes end behavior, which appeared so eccentric in the Langley setting. For our purposes, this perception of eccentricity can be characterized as a cultural dissonance that arose when Munk's approach to engineering came into conflict with the practice of the Langley engineers.

Read the entire page →

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