Author: Werkspoor NVPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
1827-1952
Author: Werkspoor NVSelected Papers of J. M. Burgers
Author: F.T. NieuwstadtPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401101957
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 761
Book Description
J.M. Burgers (1895--1981) is regarded as one of the leading scientists in the field of fluid mechanics, contributing many important results, a number of which still bear his name. However, the work of this outstanding scientist was mostly published in the Proceedings and Transactions of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, of which he was a distinguished member. Nowadays, this work is almost impossible to obtain through the usual library channels. Therefore, the editors have decided to reissue the most important work of J.M. Burgers, which gives the reader access to the original papers which led to important results, now known as the Burgers Equation, the Burgers Vector and the Burgers Vortex. Further, the book contains a biography of J.M. Burgers, which provides the reader with both information on his scientific life, as well as a rounded impression of the many activities which J.M. Burgers performed or was involved in outside his science.
Family Capitalism
Author: Geoffrey JonesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135237867
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
First published in 1994. The articles in this collection are concerned with family-owned business enterprises and span three centuries and three continents. Family firms account for between 75 per cent and 99 per cent of all companies in the EC, and 65 per cent of GDP and employment in Europe. While the huge majority of family businesses are very small-scale, many are not. In the United States one-third of Fortune 500 companies are currentlyfamily-controlled.
Building Plants
Author: Arjan van RooijPublisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Dutch firm DSM is now more than one hundred years old. Over its long history, DSM developed from coal mining and coke production to a diversified, international chemical company and became one of the leading Dutch multinationals. Industrial research played an important role in this transformation. DSM's research laboratory was one of the largest in the Netherlands. However, there were also other means to appropriate the technology that was necessary to manufacture products. In some sectors of the chemical industry, there was a market for technology in which companies bought and sold technologies in various forms and in various ways. This book tries to analyse why and how DSM used this market and in which cases the company used its internal resources. It does so by following the engineering and construction of new plants and the expansion of existing installations. In this way, it becomes possible to analyse the market for technology as well as in-house capabilities. The book focuses on DSM's nitrogen fertiliser business between 1925 and 1970, a period in which fertilisers formed an important pillar of the company.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases
Railways in the Netherlands
Author: A. J. VeenendaalPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804739474
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This book traces the origin, growth, decline, and resurrection of the railway system of the Netherlands from its beginnings to privatization in the 1990s, and places its history in the context of the political and socioeconomic development of the country. At first, the largely agrarian and mercantile Dutch society saw little use for such a novel system of transportation, thanks to a highly developed system of roads and waterways. However, the success of early English railways did not go unnoticed, and in 1834 a plan was developed for a railway from Amsterdam to the Prussian Ruhr area to replace the transportation system along the Rhine River. Although this initial plan was finally abandoned, other lines were opened in 1839. The technology was largely borrowed from England and Belgium, but from the outset Dutch engineers played an important role in the development of the network. Apart from a short-lived state system, the first railways were built and operated by private companies, but when this did not result in an efficient network, the state stepped in again in 1860 to bring coherence. By 1900, the national network was complete, but labor unrest escalated, leading to the national strike of 1903, which reverberated for many years in the Dutch Parliament, railroad board rooms, and socialist political parties. The exigencies of World War I increased the grip of the state on the railways, which ultimately resulted in 1938 in the complete unification of the railways, albeit under public ownership. In the 1920s and 1930s, competition from other forms of transportation resulted in a curtailing of services and the closing of unprofitable lines. World War II devastated the Dutch railway system and necessitated an almost complete rebuilding. In the postwar era, population growth, greater mobility, pollution problems, and lack of space for new highways led to an intensive use of existing railways and the construction of new lines to link new suburbs and airports with the existing network. The privatization craze of the 1990s separated the ownership of the network from its operations, but the final relationship has yet to be established.
The National Union Catalog, 1952-1955 Imprints
Author: Widener Library Shelflist: Economics and economics periodicals, v.1. Classification schedule
Author: Harvard University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Author: Library of Congress