The American Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry: War and by Kathryn Steen

By Kathryn Steen

sooner than 1914, Germany ruled the global construction of artificial natural dyes and prescription drugs like aspirin. while international struggle I disrupted the availability of German chemical compounds to the U.S., American marketers spoke back to the shortages and excessive costs by means of attempting to manufacture chemical compounds regionally. studying the advanced technology and undefined, in spite of the fact that, posed a major problem. This booklet explains how the U.S. equipped an artificial natural chemical substances in international conflict I and the Nineteen Twenties. Kathryn Steen argues that americans' excessive anti-German sentiment in global struggle I helped to forge a centred attempt between organizations, the government, and universities to make the us self sufficient of "foreign chemicals."

Besides mobilization efforts to make excessive explosives and warfare gases, federal guidelines integrated protecting price lists, accumulating and publishing industry details, and, so much dramatically, confiscation of German-owned chemical subsidiaries and patents. in the meantime, companies and universities labored demanding to improve clinical and production services. opposed to a backdrop of hostilities and intrigue, Steen indicates how chemical substances have been deeply entwined with nationwide and overseas politics and coverage through the warfare and next isolationism of the turbulent early 20th century.

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