CONTENTS 



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Introduction 1 



I. The Problem: The Application of Science to Technology 



— Alfred North Whitehead 3 



II. The Rise of Science in Industry 5 



A. The Bessemer Process 5 



1. American Push — Robert W. Hunt 6 



2. Engineering Science and Art — A. L. Holley 9 



B. Edison, the Professional Inventor — George 



Parsons Lathrop l*^) 



C. Electrical Research in the Early Twentieth 



Century — Irving Langmuir IS 



D. Chemical Research in the Early Twentieth 



Century — W. A. Hamor 21 



E. Basic Science and Industrial Research: A 1916 



View— J. J. Carty 24 



III. The Rise of Science in Agriculture 30 



A. An Early Demand for Agricultural Research — 



J. D. B.DeBow 30 



B. The Department in 1882 33 



C. Theobald Smith and Texas Fever 35 



D. The Shift to the Problem Approach — 



Charles W. Dabney 36 



E. A Mature Research Establishment for Agriculture 41 



1. A Scientist's View — Eugene Davenport 41 



2. A Politician's View — Carl Vrooman 45 



IV. Climax: Sunny Progressivism and the Shadow of War 51 



A. The Progressive's Credo — W. J. McGee 52 



B. A Statesman's Foreboding — Elihu Root 56 



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