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Hardcover. Condición: Fine condition. Near Fine DJ (price clipped). First US Edition. New York: Crane, Russak & Company, Inc , 1972. Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated with 14 tables and 5 charts. From the Dust Jacket: "Why does Britain, with a larger proportion of qualified scientists and engineers in relation to the total labour force than any other European country, have so poor a record in transferring inventions into profitable production and the market place? This question is the central theme of TEN INNOVATIONS." Among the 10 innovations addressed are: swing-wing aircraft; Wankle car engine; float glass; integrated circuits; colour television; nuclear reactors; oscilloscopes; Olefin plants for ethylene production. American issue of a book printed in Great Britain and published there by George Allen & Unwin. Index. First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine DJ (price clipped). 8vo. xii, 199pp.…