Anthony S. Travis

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Nitrogen Capture (eBook, PDF)

The Growth of an International Industry (1900-1940)

Beschreibung

Highlights the international development of the synthetic nitrogen industry including its global impact and role in increasing crop yields

Describes how the synthetic nitrogen industry became a forerunner of the 20th-century chemical industry in Europe

Includes information on the synthetic nitrogen industry in Japan and the role this had on the industrialization of colonial Korea

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Autor

Anthony S. Travis is deputy director of the Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on the history of chemistry and chemical technology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Travis is recipient of four awards for his contributions to the history of chemistry.

He has edited and co-edited several volumes and special issues of journals dealing with the history of science, technology and the environment. Publications include: The Rainbow Makers; The Origins of the Synthetic Dyestuffs Industry in Western Europe (Lehigh: Lehigh University Press, 1993); (with Carsten Reinhardt) Heinrich Caro and the Creation of Modern Chemical Industry (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000); Dyes Made in America, 1915-1980: The Calco Chemical Company, American Cyanamid, and the Raritan River (Jerusalem: Edelstein Center/Hexagon Press, 2004); and most recently The Synthetic Nitrogen Industry in World War I: Its Emergence and Expansion (Heidelberg: Springer, 2015).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 411
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319689630
• Artikelnr.: 52943558