Book ID: CBB000741816

Nylon and Bombs: DuPont and the March of Modern America (2007)

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Ndiaye, Pap (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2007
Edition Details: Translated by Elborg Forster
Physical Details: 289 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On DuPont's role in the development of both nylon and plutonium and the relationship of those technologies to 20th-century American culture.


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Review Hughes, Jeff (2008) Review of "Nylon and Bombs: DuPont and the March of Modern America". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 443). unapi

Review Roberts, Jody (2008) Review of "Nylon and Bombs: DuPont and the March of Modern America". Technology and Culture (p. 493). unapi

Review Seidel, Robert W. (2008) Review of "Nylon and Bombs: DuPont and the March of Modern America". Bulletin for the History of Chemistry (p. 121). unapi

Essay Review Johnson, Ann (2008) What If We Wrote the History of Science from the Perspective of Applied Science?. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 610-620). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hounshell, David A.
Smith, John K.
Baracca, Angelo
Beaver, William R.
Gilch, Heinz
Iannarone, Joseph J., Jr.
Journals
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
Technology and Culture
Agricultural History
Environmental History
Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Fachgruppe Geschichte der Chemie
Physics in Perspective
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Blackwell
Blackwell Publishers
Carocci Editore
J & J Publishing
Johns Hopkins University Press
Concepts
Chemical industry
Nuclear industry
Technology and culture
Development of technology; change in technology
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Science and war; science and the military
People
Carothers, Wallace Hume
Gross, Hans
Schlack, Paul
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
17th century
18th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Soviet Union
France
Germany
Italy
Institutions
Du Pont Company
Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Hanford Nuclear Site (Washington)
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