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Building on Air: The International Industrial Gases Industry, 1886–2006
Raymond G. Stokes
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Description for Building on Air: The International Industrial Gases Industry, 1886–2006
hardcover. This is the first scholarly history of the industrial gases industry from its origins to the present. Num Pages: 479 pages, 46 b/w illus. 31 tables. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; KCZ; KNDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 235 x 35. Weight in Grams: 860.
The industrial gases industry originated in 1886, when a London-based company began producing high-purity oxygen. Initially, purified oxygen was a solution in search of a problem, but demand for it soared early in the twentieth century with the emergence of welding technology. By then, dramatic technological improvements in air separation and purification had emerged, as had most key firms dominating the industry today. Building on air in the decades that followed, the firms expanded their product range and geographical reach to create applications that were essential to every manufacturing process in the modern world, from semiconductor production to oil refining, ... Read more
The industrial gases industry originated in 1886, when a London-based company began producing high-purity oxygen. Initially, purified oxygen was a solution in search of a problem, but demand for it soared early in the twentieth century with the emergence of welding technology. By then, dramatic technological improvements in air separation and purification had emerged, as had most key firms dominating the industry today. Building on air in the decades that followed, the firms expanded their product range and geographical reach to create applications that were essential to every manufacturing process in the modern world, from semiconductor production to oil refining, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
479
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107033122
SKU
V9781107033122
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99-10
About Raymond G. Stokes
Since 2005, Raymond G. Stokes has held the Chair of Business History at the University of Glasgow, where he also serves as Director of the Centre for Business History in Scotland. His book The Business of Waste: Great Britain and Germany, 1945 to the Present (with co-authors Roman Köster and Stephen Sambrook) was published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. ... Read more
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