Kooperationsprojekt mit der University of Glasgow.
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Project Description
Business and economic historians have long since concerned themselves with the emergence and development of the industries of the so-called "second industrial revolution" - chemicals, electrical goods, and other research-intensive industries - and their component companies. However, one of the industries of the second industrial revolution has been virtually ignored in this scholarship to date: the industrial gases industry, aptly termed the "invisible industry" in a short overview published by its main international trade association.
This relative neglect is somewhat ironic in that industrial gases, produced by a handful of specialised firms, have been critical to enabling innovation and development in more prominent industries ranging from chemicals and semiconductor manufacturing to steel production, oil refining, and food processing. This project seeks to give a fuller and more nuanced picture of the history of research-intensive industry over the long term by exploring the history of the industrial gases industry through business history of its component firms from its inception in the late 19th century to the present. Led by Ray Stokes of the Centre for Business History, it is funded by Linde AG, and involves cooperation with the University of Frankfurt Department of Economic and Social History and the German Society for Business History (Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte). The research team, comprised of Stokes, postdoctoral fellow Dr Ralf Banken, and PhD student Matthias Pühl, will produce a number of scholarly articles over the project's four-year duration, culminating in a research monograph to be completed in 2011.
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