'Chemical Glasgow and its entrepreneurs, 1760-1860' in L L Roberts & S Werrett (eds), Compound Histories - materials, governance and production, 1760-1840
Details:
- Author(s) Christie, John R R
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 2018
- Pages pp311-32
- Publisher Brill
- Place Published Leiden
Topics:
- Name Entrepreneurship inc cultural influences, opportunity, etc
- Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
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Notes:
Focuses on Glasgow's chemical industry, the firm of Charles Tennant and two of its leading 18th/19th century entrepreneurs, Charles Tennant and Charles Macintosh, analysing the nature of their 'chemical-entrepreneurial' activity and the nature of the underlying technical and economic innovation process