The CRC Press, LLC is a publishing group which specializes in producing technical books. While 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 subsidiary of Informa.

History[link]

The CRC Press was originally founded as the Chemical Rubber Company (CRC), which supplied laboratory equipment to chemists. In 1913 the CRC offered a short (116-page) manual called the Rubber Handbook as an incentive to purchase one of their products.^[1] Since then the Rubber Handbook has evolved into the CRC's flagship book, the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.^[1] In 1973, in light of the success of its publishing ventures, the company changed its name to CRC Press, Inc, and exited the manufacturing business.^[1] In 1986 it was bought by the Times Mirror Company; in 1997/98 it became a publicly held company. In 2003 CRC became part of Taylor & Francis, which in 2004 became part of the UK publisher Informa.^[1]

See also[link]

• Woodhead Publishing

References[link]

External links[link]

• CRC Press Website

CRC may refer to:

Companies[link]

• China Record Corporation, a large record company, based in Beijing
• China Resources Cement, a cement company parented by China Resources
• CRC Press, publisher, originally the Chemical Rubber Company
• CRC Industries, a worldwide manufacturer of specialist industrial chemicals, including CRC 5-56 penetrating oil

Computing[link]

• Class-Responsibility-Collaboration card, used as a brainstorming tool in the design of object-oriented software
• Cross Racing Championship Extreme 2005, a car-racing game developed by Invictus Games
• Cyclic redundancy check, a type of hash function used to produce a checksum in order to detect errors in data storage or transmission

Organizations[link]

• California Rehabilitation Center, a state prison in the USA
• Cambridge Regional College, a further education college
• Canada Research Chair
• Capital Research Center
• Central Rabbinical Congress, a Haredi group
• Chicago Rabbinical Council
• Christian Reformed Church (disambiguation)
• Civilian Response Corps, deployable American federal civilian employees who provide reconstruction and stabilization assistance
• Commission for Rural Communities, a UK public body
• Committee on the Rights of the Child
• Communications Research Centre Canada, an agency of Industry Canada
• Cooperative Research Centre, a type of hybrid academic/industry research body existing in Australia
• CRC Churches International, a Pentecostal Protestant Christian denomination located primarily in Australasia
• Control and Reporting Centre (CRC) in NATO countries
• Crowley's Ridge College, a Christian college in Paragould, Arkansas
• Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Center, the Rec center at Georgia Tech

Places[link]

• Camp Red Cloud, a US Army Camp in Uijeongbu, South Korea

Sports[link]

• Cambridge Regional College F.C., a semi-professional football club in England
• Canadian Rally Championship, a rally racing tournament
• Canadian Rugby Championship, a rugby union tournament
• Capablanca random chess, a 10x8 chess variant
• Collegiate Rugby Championship, a rugby sevens tournament

Other[link]

• Camera-ready copy—a document version that is ready to be printed without further alteration
• Christian Rosenkreuz (Christian Rose Cross), founder of the Rosicrucian Order
• Clinical research coordinator
• Costa Rican colón, ISO 4217 currency code
• Colorectal cancer
• Control and reporting center, a component of the Integrated NATO Air Defense System
• Convention on the Rights of the Child
• CRC, the FIFA and IOC trigram for Costa Rica, whose ISO 3166 trigram is CRI
• CRC, the ICAO airline designator for Conair Aviation
• CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, a UK wide scheme designed to increase energy efficiency in large energy users
• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, a reference manual published by CRC Press
• MTR CRC-Stock EMU, a train

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Look up press in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Press may refer to:

Media[link]

• News media, the section of the mass media industry that focuses on presenting current news to the public
• Publisher, a company that produces or disseminates literature or information
• Press TV, the Iranian television network
• Associated Press, a global news network
• Press (newspaper), a newspaper in Serbia
• The Pittsburgh Press, a historic newspaper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA that ceased publication in 1991.

Machines[link]

• Printing press, a machine that transfers inked images onto a medium such as paper or cloth
• Machine press, a machine that shapes material
• RAM press, a machine that shapes clay
• Trouser press, an electrical appliance used to smooth the wrinkles from a pair of trousers

Food preparation

• French press, a device for coffee preparation
• Fruit press, a device used to separate fruit solids from juice
• Garlic press, a kitchen utensil designed to crush garlic cloves
• Ram press (food), a device used to extract juice or oil
• Wine press, a device used to extract juice from crushed grapes during wine making

Other uses[link]

• Ironing, the act of removing wrinkles from clothes
• Press (overhead), the act of lifting a weight above the head
• Press (surname), family name of English and Eastern European origin
• "Press" (song), by Paul McCartney
• Press (album), by MU330
• Impressment, a method of involuntary recruitment into a navy
• Linen-press, a cabinet for storing textiles
• Press (film), a Turkish film

See also[link]

• The Press (disambiguation)
• Press gang (disambiguation)

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Andrew Cowper Lawson (July 25, 1861-June 16, 1952) was a professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the editor and co-author of the 1908 report on the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake which became known as the "Lawson Report". He was also the first person to identify and name the San Andreas Fault in 1895, and after the 1906 quake, the first to delineate the entire length of the San Andreas Fault which previously had been noted only in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also named the Franciscan Complex.

Lawson was born on July 25, 1861 in Anstruther, Scotland. He moved to Hamilton, Canada with his parents at age six. In 1883, he received his B.A. degree in natural science from the University of Toronto. He worked for the Geological Survey of Canada while pursuing his graduate degrees. He received his M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1885, and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1888.

In 1890, he left the Geological Survey of Canada to work as a consulting geologist in Vancouver. In October of the same year, he accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Mineralogy and Geology at the University of California in Berkeley. He became a full professor in 1892, and a Professor Emeritus from 1928 to his death on June 16, 1952.

Professor Lawson was a consulting geologist for the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in the 1930s.

His home in the La Loma Park area of the Berkeley Hills in Berkeley, California, now called the "Lawson House", was especially designed for him by noted architect Bernard Maybeck to withstand earthquakes.^[1] The house is an officially designated local landmark.

The mineral Lawsonite is named for him, as is the Lawson Adit, a mining tunnel on UC Berkeley's campus.

References[link]

• The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission, Andrew C. Lawson, chairman, Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 87, 2 vols. (1908) - Available online at this USGS webpage.

External links[link]

• UC Berkeley - Lawson Biography
• Guide to the Andrew C. Lawson Papers at The Bancroft Library
• The Lawson House
• Mary K. Miller: Exploratorium
• Discoverer of the San Andreas Fault
• Great Scots: Lawson