CRC Press, LLC

CRC Press believes in a better future and that our books and digital resources in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine can play a part in bringing it about. We believe that creating knowledge is fundamentally a collective endeav ing knowledge is fundamentally a collective endeavour, and we are proud to connect researchers, academics, professionals, and students to the high-quality, cross-disciplinary knowledge, learning aids, and specialty research our expert authors have written. The CRC Press, LLC is an American publishing group that specializes in producing technical books. Many of their books relate to engineering, science and mathematics. Their scope also includes books on business, forensics and information technology. CRC Press is now a division of Taylor & Francis, itself a subsidiary of Informa. The CRC Press was founded as the Chemical Rubber Company (CRC) in 1903 by brothers Arthur, Leo and Emanuel Friedman in Cleveland, Ohio, based on an earlier enterprise by Arthur, who had begun selling rubber laboratory aprons in 1900.[2][3] The company gradually expanded to include sales of laboratory equipment to chemists. In 1913 the CRC offered a short (116-page) manual called the Rubber Handbook as an incentive for any purchase of a dozen aprons.[3][4] Since then the Rubber Handbook has evolved into the CRC's flagship book, the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.[4] Another one of CRC's highly successful reference handbooks, CRC Standard Mathematical Tables, has sold over 2 million copies. In 1964, Chemical Rubber decided to focus on its publishing ventures, and in 1973 the company changed its name to CRC Press, Inc, and exited the manufacturing business, spinning off that line as the Lab Apparatus Company.