The CRC Press, LLC is an American publishing group that specializes in producing technical books. Many of their books relate to
engineering
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,
science
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and
mathematics
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. Their scope also includes books on
business
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,
forensics
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and
information technology
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. CRC Press is now a division of
Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in the United Kingdom that publishes books and academic journals. Its parts include Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, Routledge, F1000 (publisher), F1000 Research and Dovepress. It i ...
, itself a subsidiary of
Informa
Informa plc is a British publishing, business intelligence, and exhibitions group based in London, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
It has offices in 30 countries and around 12,000 ...
.
History
The CRC Press was founded as the Chemical Rubber Company (CRC) in 1903 by brothers Arthur, Leo and Emanuel Friedman in
Cleveland, Ohio
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, based on an earlier enterprise by Arthur, who had begun selling rubber laboratory aprons in 1900.
The company gradually expanded to include sales of laboratory equipment to
chemist
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s. In 1913 the CRC offered a short (116-page) manual called the ''Rubber Handbook'' as an incentive for any purchase of a dozen aprons.
[ Since then the ''Rubber Handbook'' has evolved into the CRC's flagship book, the '']CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
The ''CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics'' is a comprehensive one-volume reference resource for science research. First published in 1914, it is currently () in its 105th edition, published in 2024. It is known colloquially among chemists as ...
''.[ Another one of CRC's highly successful reference handbooks, '']CRC Standard Mathematical Tables
''CRC Standard Mathematical Tables'' (also ''CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulas'' or ''SMTF'') is a comprehensive one-volume handbook containing a fundamental working knowledge of mathematics and tables of formulas.
History
The handb ...
'', 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.Times Mirror Company
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History
It had its roots in the Mirror Printing and Binding House, a commercial printing company founded in 1873, and the ''Los Angeles Times'' ...
. Times Mirror began exploring the possibility of a sale of CRC Press in 1996, and in December announced the sale of CRC to Information Ventures. In 2003, CRC became part of Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in the United Kingdom that publishes books and academic journals. Its parts include Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, Routledge, F1000 (publisher), F1000 Research and Dovepress. It i ...
, which in 2004 became part of the UK publisher Informa
Informa plc is a British publishing, business intelligence, and exhibitions group based in London, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
It has offices in 30 countries and around 12,000 ...
.
See also
*Chapman & Hall
Chapman & Hall is an imprint owned by CRC Press, originally founded as a British publishing house in London in the first half of the 19th century by Edward Chapman and William Hall. Chapman & Hall were publishers for Charles Dickens (from 1840 ...
*MathWorld
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