The Advanced Materials and Processing Program and the Restructuring of Materials Science and Technology in the United States

10.17226/9117 ◽  
1995 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Advanced Materials ◽  
Processing Program

The Frei Administration

2019 ◽  
pp. 126-166
Author(s):  
James Lockhart
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cuban Revolution ◽  
Nuclear Science ◽  
International Response ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter assesses the Frei administration's national and international response to the energy the Cuban Revolution unleashed in Latin America in the 1960s. It presents President Eduardo Frei as an independent actor with his own agenda, which included the backing and accelerating of Chileans' developmental project in nuclear science and technology. It also reconstructs and reevaluates the United States, particularly the CIA's, relationship with Frei.

The Bell Telephone Laboratories—an example of an institute of creative technology

1950 ◽  
Vol 137 (889) ◽  
pp. 419-433 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Agricultural Society

The part that science and technology have played in influencing the economic, social and political patterns of western society and in enriching the lives of its people has steadily increased during the last century. The scope and character of this influence have varied widely from country to country. Traditions, mores, maturity, size, patterns of education, and many other factors have been elements in bringing about the variations. The influence has probably been most profound in the United States, principally, I believe, because of its youth, size, and patterns of education. Beginning some four or five decades ago, my country has been transformed at an increasingly rapid tempo from primarily an agricultural society to predominantly an industrial one under the driving force of an expanding body of science and technology. So completely have they dominated the pattern of our growth that when the man in the street speaks of ‘progress’, he usually means scientific and technological progress.

Policies, plans, and research and development investment in advanced materials in the major countries

1987 ◽  
Vol 322 (1567) ◽  
pp. 311-321 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Advanced Materials ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Industrial Activity ◽  
European Economies ◽  
And Training

Technological change is accelerating and broadening. New materials are among the most dramatic areas of such change, and are increasingly being incorporated into existing and new industrial activity. Japan and the United States of America are leading the European economies in many areas of creation and use of new materials. Europe’s talent base in new materials is smaller and weaker than those of the U.S.A, and Japan. Strengthening that talent base through improvements in education and training, and in industry and university collaboration in particular, is Europe’s most pressing challenge in this area.

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