SCIENCE AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN AMERICA 



ajid Public Policy, 1860-1891 (New York: Holt, 1961); and H. U. 

 Faulkner, The Decline of Laissez Faire, 1819-1911 (New York: Rinehart, 

 1951) — pay some passing attention to research and provide copious gen- 

 eral background. 



Special studies of high quality exist only for the electrical industry. 

 Harold C. Passer, The Electrical Manufacturers 1815-1900: A Study in 

 Co??7petition, Entrepreneurship, Technical Change, and Economic Growth 

 (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1953) is a model study. Kendall Birr, 

 Pioneering in Inditstrial Research: The Story of the General Electric 

 Research Laboratory (Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1957) is a good 

 study of an important laboratory. Matthew Josephson, Edison (New 

 York: McGraw, 1959) stands by itself as a biography, not only of Edi- 

 son, but of any figure in the history of technology of the period. 



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