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Nylon and bombs : DuPont and the march of modern America
Du nylon et des bombes. English
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- Creator
- Pap A. Ndiaye ; translated by Elborg Forster
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- English
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- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
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- 289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780801884443, 0801884446, 9781421403342, 142140334X
- OCLC
- ocn608111346, ocm63692685
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-281) and index.
- DuPont and the rise of chemical engineering -- From ammonia to nylon : technologies and careers -- Culture and politics at DuPont before World War II -- The forgetten engineers of the bomb -- The heyday and decline of chemical enineering