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- From: akerr@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Austin Kerr)
- Subject: Re: The advent of "technological secrecy"
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 12:16:07 GMT
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- In corporate American, I suspect secrecy was very common well before WWII. In
- writing the history of BFGoodrich (the current logo), Blackford and I have
- learned that even in the earliest days, when the firm was the only rubber
- manufacturer west of the Appalachians, Dr. B.F. Goodrich (he was an M.D.) kept
- a careful record of research done in his small laboratory by himself in a code.
- Rubber manufacturing is very much a chemical business, among other matters,
- and the compounding of rubber was (and is) something that can give a company a
- competitive edge.
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- Austin Kerr Ohio State University
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