@inbook{993957b67e4c4633a8a293d5b887dea0,
title = "The piecemeal rationality of application oriented research. As analysis of the R+D-history leading to the invention of the plumbicon in the Philips Research laboratories",
abstract = "The Plumbicon is a television camera pickup tube which was developed by the Philips Research Laboratories. It was made public in 1962 and even today is considered the ultimate in pickup tube designs. This was confirmed by G.O. Towler of the Department of Trade and Industry of the UK during the International Conference on the History of Television",
author = "A. Sarlemijn and {Vries, de}, M.J.",
year = "1992",
doi = "10.1007/978-94-015-8010-6_5",
language = "English",
isbn = "0-7923-1898-6",
series = "Boston studies in the philosophy of science",
publisher = "Kluwer Academic Publishers",
pages = "99--132",
editor = "P.A. Kroes and M. Bakker",
booktitle = "Technological development and science in the industrial age : new perspectives on the science-technology",
address = "Netherlands",
}