Nathaniel Wyeth – Got a lot of bottle
Richard Jansen-Parkes looks into the life and times of Nathaniel Wyeth, inventor of the PET bottle
Richard Jansen-Parkes looks into the life and times of Nathaniel Wyeth, inventor of the PET bottle
Claudia Flavell-While speaks with Yoshio Nishi, the Sony engineer who led the development of the ...
Claudia Flavell-While charts the rise of business giant (and chemical engineer) Jack Welch
Spencer Silver and Arthur Fry: the chemist and the tinkerer who created the Post-it Note
Jay Bailey helped to bring chemical engineering to cell level. Claudia Flavell-While investigates
… for Bob Gore, one giant leap for outdoor lovers. Claudia Flavell-While looks at the history of ...
Claudia Flavell-While explores the surprising ancestry of modern electronic gadgets, and how a ch...
Claudia Flavell-While explores the contribution of separation scientist Csaba Horváth
Richard Jansen-Parkes looks at the life of Lewis Urry, inventor of the alkaline battery and fathe...
Claudia Flavell-While charts the contribution of P&G’s Victor Mills
Trevor Kletz, the father of inherent safety, explains his remarkable career
Meet Francis ‘Tom’ Bacon, the father of the hydrogen fuel cell; Claudia Flavell-While writes
Chemical engineers have a lot to answer for – including the Summer of Love. Claudia Flavell-Whi...
Richard Jansen looks at the life and work of Andrew Grove, a founding father of the silicon age
Vladimir Haensel’s brainchild, the platforming process, underpins transport and plastics producti...
Pfizer's Penicillin Pioneers – Jasper Kane and John McKeen
Overshadowed by his brother Wernher, Magnus von Braun still had a fateful role to play. Claudia F...
Claudia Flavell-While goes on the trail of Dudley Maurice Newitt – a developer of spy gadgetry an...
2015 marks the centenary of the Great Shell Crisis of World War I (WWI), in which the British Arm...
What’s the most valuable metal in the world? Today, it’s gold, the price of which has soared so m...
Alchemy. It’s a word that conjures up images of charlatans and quackery, of quasi-mythical men po...
For a series called Chemical Engineers who Changed the World, it would be downright rude not to f...
Leo Hendrik Baekeland, the inventor of Bakelite, whose work ushered in the age of polymers
The commercial success of PE starts with Reginald Gibson, Eric Fawcett, Michael Perrin and Dermot...
The prospects at birth for Edward Charles Howard and Norbert Rillieux could scarcely have been mo...
Arthur D Little defined unit operations and, with it, a whole profession, says Claudia Flavell-While
One of the first chemicals to be produced at industrial scale, a product that laid the foundation...
If the industrial revolution was built on steel, then the father of the industrial revolution was...
Beer has a lot to answer for, and not just beer bellies. Beer is also to blame for some key techn...
From fuel hero to climate zero: Claudia Flavell-While on the turbulent life of Thomas Midgley
Waldo Semon has a lot to answer for, finds Claudia Flavell-While
Fluid catalytic cracking has been called ‘the most revolutionary chemical engineering achievement...
No chemical engineering feat better illustrates the double-edged nature of many inventions than t...
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