books.google.com - The development of an American science establishment -- today an amalgam of scientists, engineers, universities, industrial laboratories, and federal science agencies -- began early in the twentieth century when the federal government began to invest in a national scientific infrastructure. During World...http://books.google.com/books/about/For_better_or_for_worse.html?id=IZUJwsDDzucC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFor better or for worse