Competing research traditions in American Industry: Uncertain alliances between engineering and science at Westinghouse Electric, 1886-1935

Enterprise and Society

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 601-645

  Kline, Ronald R ^a   Lassman, Thomas C ^b  

^a School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

^b US Army Center of Military History   (United States)

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EID: 28044457389     PISSN: 14672227     EISSN: 14672235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/es/khi123     Document Type: Conference Paper

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