"Food Machinery Corporation's Central Research Department: A Case Study of Research and Development, 1942-1954"

For those interested in the history of technology, business, corporate research and development (R&D), or food technology (particularly, canning technology), I am posting a copy of my senior thesis, which I completed for an independent major in the History of Technology at the University of California-Berkeley. Note that the last file listed is a zip file that includes all chapters.

I remain deeply grateful to my undergraduate advisor, Professor Richard Abrams, for encouraging me to turn my energies from physics to history long ago and for supporting and guiding this research.

Citation: Colleen A. Dunlavy. "Food Machinery Corporation's Central Research Department: A Case Study of Research and Development," Senior Thesis, University of California-Berkeley, 1980.

Keywords: history, FMC, Food Machinery Corporation, research, development, R&D, food processing, canning technology.

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