Format:
1 online resource (326 pages)
ISBN:
9789048504794
Content:
A historical study of the role of the Philips Nat.Lab. in the past 80 years.
Content:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Role of a Research Organisation in an Industrial Company: Motives and Themes for Writing the History of the Philips Nat. Lab. -- 2. Prologue: The Nat.Lab.'s Early Years (1914-1923) -- PART I. The Nat.Lab. as a Growth and Diversification Factor in the Philips Company (1923-1946) -- 3. Developing a Research Organisation for a Diversifying Company -- 3.1 Philips and Technological and Economic Developments in the Netherlands in the 1923-1946 Period -- 3.2 Supporting Company Diversification as a Nat.Lab. Goal -- 3.3 Increasing the Laboratory's Means -- The Culture and Structures for the Diversifying Research Programme -- 3.5 Influencing the Company -- 4. Research for Diversification in Action -- 4.1 Gas Discharges and Mercury Lamps -- 4.2 X-ray Tubes -- 4.3 Ferrites -- 4.4 Holst's Rules Reconsidered -- Intermezzo I. The German Occupation and the Transition Years (1940-1946) -- PART II. An Autonomous Lab alongside Autonomous Product Divisions (1946-1972) -- 5. A Research Organisation alongside Autonomous Product Divisions -- 5.1 The Economic, Social and Scientific Context in the 1950s and 1960s -- 5.2 A New Task Profile for the Nat.Lab. -- 5.3 Further Increase of Means -- 5.4 Culture and Structure for a 'Fundamental' Research Lab in an Industrial Lab -- 5.5 Tensions in the Relationships with PDs -- 6. The Practice of Autonomous Research -- 6.1 The Stirling Engine -- 6.2 The Plumbicon -- 6.3 LOCOS: LOCal Oxidation of Silicon -- 6.4 The VLP -- 6.5 Inventions and Innovations -- Intermezzo II. Changing Attitudes towards Science and Technology (1966-1972) -- PART III. The Road towards Mutual Commitment (1972-1994) -- 7. Redirecting the Research Organisation for Mutual Commitment -- 7.1 The Problematic Economic Climate -- 7.2 Towards a PD-oriented Task Profile -- 7.3 Limited Resources.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789085550518
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Vries, Marc de, 1958 - 80 years of research at the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (1914 - 1994) Amsterdam : Pallas, 2005 ISBN 9085550513
Additional Edition:
Print version 80 Years of Research at the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (1914-1994) : The Role of the Nat. Lab. at Philips
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
Keywords:
Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium
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Geschichte 1914-1994
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