The Management of Research Institutions: A Look at Government LaboratoriesScientific and Technical Information Branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1984 - 306 pages |
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... position to know that the lines between research and technology development run both ways ; that the introduction of new technologies often marks only the beginning of a process of discovery ; that the needs of government agencies have ...
... position to know that the lines between research and technology development run both ways ; that the introduction of new technologies often marks only the beginning of a process of discovery ; that the needs of government agencies have ...
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... position , especially its longitude ; to studies of times of tides ; to experiments in ship construction and ship accessories ; to studies of methods of mine ventilation , metallurgy , and general mining techniques ; to experiments with ...
... position , especially its longitude ; to studies of times of tides ; to experiments in ship construction and ship accessories ; to studies of methods of mine ventilation , metallurgy , and general mining techniques ; to experiments with ...
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... position of the Union Navy during the Civil War . When he died in 1870 , he had turned the Naval Shipyard from an ... positions where they were able to act . In no important way did they further the naval revolution , but to keep pace ...
... position of the Union Navy during the Civil War . When he died in 1870 , he had turned the Naval Shipyard from an ... positions where they were able to act . In no important way did they further the naval revolution , but to keep pace ...
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... position in agriculture it enjoys . Yet it must be conceded that until the Second World War , scientific research was a rather peripheral activity of the Federal Government . In addition to its arsenals and shipyards , the government ...
... position in agriculture it enjoys . Yet it must be conceded that until the Second World War , scientific research was a rather peripheral activity of the Federal Government . In addition to its arsenals and shipyards , the government ...
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... position of the professional scientist . How the system was transformed under the stress of war into the nodes of mission - oriented scientific agencies , depending heavily on the private sector for contract services , is the theme of ...
... position of the professional scientist . How the system was transformed under the stress of war into the nodes of mission - oriented scientific agencies , depending heavily on the private sector for contract services , is the theme of ...
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Page 28 - Act, to the endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislature of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Page 28 - Act of 1862 was a comprehensive measure, providing for "the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college [in each State] where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 265 - Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution...
Page 272 - Act to be to establish and vigorously conduct a comprehensive, national program of basic and applied research and development, including but not limited to demonstrations of practical applications, of all potentially beneficial energy sources and utilization technologies, within the Energy Research and Development Administration.
Page 72 - Laboratory (ORNL) has somewhat greater freedom to seek new clients when work slackens than a facility staffed by government employees. However, that freedom is usually circumscribed to a degree by the original sponsor. In this respect, the case of ORNL is unusually revealing. Beginning in 1961, ORNL director Alvin Weinberg sought to diversify, while maintaining good relations with the Atomic Energy Commission and the congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. The need for diversification arose...
Page 238 - Daniel S. Greenberg, The Politics of Pure Science (New York: New American Library, 1967), p.
Page 259 - Research projects which represent investigation directed to discovery of new scientific knowledge and which have specific commercial objectives with respect to either products or processes.
Page i - Anxiety for the future time disposeth men to inquire into the causes of things; because the knowledge of them maketh men the better able to order the present to their best advantage.
Page 88 - What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobody asks me; but if I am asked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.
Page 54 - Technology which ultimately acquired the role of developing unmanned spacecraft to explore the solar system. In 1960, NASA acquired from the Army the rocket team headed by Wernher von Braun located at the US Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. Von Braun and his colleagues were already working on the Saturn rocket and, after President Kennedy's May 1961 decision committing the United States to land a man on the Moon and return him safely before the end of the decade...