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Enterprise and Society 2007 8(2):441-444; doi:10.1093/es/khm038
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

Marc J. de Vries, with contributions by F. Kees Boersma. 80 Years of Research at the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium, 1914–1994

Marc J. de Vries, with contributions by F. Kees Boersma. 80 Years of Research at the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium, 1914–1994. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2006. 325 pp. ISBN 90-8555-051-3, $40.00

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With few exceptions, the history of industrial research and development (R&D) has focused primarily on the corporate laboratories owned and operated by large manufacturing firms in the United States. The most well-known examples include DuPont, Westinghouse Electric, Eastman Kodak, American Telephone and Telegraph, General Electric, and the Aluminum Company of America. A welcome addition to this American-centered historical literature is a new history of the Natuurkundig Laboratorium (translated as physics laboratory, but abbreviated in the text as the Nat. Lab.) established by the N. V. Philips Gloeilampenfabriek (hereafter Philips Company) in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 1914. In this . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Thomas C. Lassman

U.S. Army Center of Military History


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