The Making of American Industrial Research: Science and Business at GE and Bell, 1876-1926

by Leonard S. Reich

This book tells the story of how and why industrial research was established in America by two large and innovative corporations: General Electric, formed in a merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston in 1892, and the dominant force in the American electrical industry ever since; and American Telephone and Telegraph, the commercial outgrowth of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone. Important lessons can be drawn from the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521522374
• ISBN13: 9780521522373
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"