Histories of major industrial research laboratories are an essential contribution to the history of technology. This book offers a description of the way one of... » 

Histories of major industrial research laboratories are an essential contribution to the history of technology. This book offers a description of the way one of such laboratories has changed its ambition and activities in the course of time. In the 80-year period that is described here, the Philips Natlab has played different roles for the Philips company, which was founded in 1891 in the Netherlands. «