The Invisible Industrialist

Manufacture and the Construction of Scientific Knowledge

By: J. Gaudilliere, Ilana Lowy (Editor)

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Hardcover | 30 April 1998 | Edition Number 1

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396 Pages

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The Invisible Industrialist discusses the role of industry in the construction of fundamental scientific knowledge. Industrial models of division of labour and industrially-produced instruments and reagents are central to experimental practices today, but they are often perceived as self-evident and thus remain invisible. This book examines the effects of the long standing association between industry and fundamental scientific research through an analysis of case studies taken from the history of physics, of chemistry and of biomedical sciences in the 19th and 20th century. These case studies highlight the role of industry and of industrial methods in the production of standardized instruments and reagents which made possible the stabilization and the diffusion of locally-produced knowledge, and its influence as provider of new organizational patterns and new division of labour within science. This subject is of interest for historians of science, technology and industry, but also to scholars interested in the production of scientific knowledge, in the social impact of science and in science policy studies

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