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Science in Victorian Manchester: Enterprise and Expertise

Science in Victorian Manchester: Enterprise and Expertise

Robert Hugh Kargon

Enterprise and Expertise Robert Hugh Kargon. chapters are devoted to the immigration of trained ... Robert H. Kargon is professor of the history of science at The Johns Hopkins University. Photo courtesy of the Manchester Public Libraries.
Invented Edens: Techno-cities of the Twentieth Century

Invented Edens: Techno-cities of the Twentieth Century

Robert H. Kargon

In Invented Edens, Robert Kargon and Arthur Molella trace the arc of one form of urban design, which they term the techno-city: a planned city developed in conjunction with large industrial or technological enterprises, blending the ...
Robert Hugh Benson: Life and Works

Robert Hugh Benson: Life and Works

Janet Grayson

Robert Hugh Benson is a new biography of Edwardian England's most famous priest-novelist.
The Necromancers

The Necromancers

Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson. "We've got in us certain powers that we don't understand at all. For instance, there's thoughtprojection. There's not a shadow of doubt that that is so. I can sit here and send you a message of what I'm thinking aboutoh!
Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography : 1925-1970, Life and Work

Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography : 1925-1970, Life and Work

Emily King

... RichardWattis Peter Cook David Puttnam James Garrett George Dixon Robert Edward Tara Brown Gerard McCarten David Cammell Hugh Hudson Mid- to late 1960s Hugh Hudson David Cammell Hugh Hudson Jon Bradshaw But of course  ...
A Short History of Physics in the American Century

A Short History of Physics in the American Century

David C. Cassidy

Robert A. Millikan, Autobiography (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1950), 178, also 165, 168. 11. ... For more on Millikan, see his Autobiography and Robert H. Kargon, The Rise of Robert Millikan: Portrait of a Life in American Science (Ithaca, NY: ...
Appropriating the Weather: Vilhelm Bjerknes and the ...

Appropriating the Weather: Vilhelm Bjerknes and the ...

Robert Marc Friedman

Vilhelm Bjerknes and the Construction of a Modern Meteorology Robert Marc Friedman ... faculty members William Cole- man, Owen Hannaway, Donna Haraway, Robert H. Kargon, Camille Limoges, Russell McCormmach, and Harry Woolf.
Dawn of All

Dawn of All

Robert Hugh Benson

This book is one of the most popular novels of Robert Hugh Benson, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling: The Making of a ...

Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling: The Making of a ...

John W. Servos

For a fuller treatment of Millikan's appointment, see Robert H. Kargon, The Rise of Robert Millikan: Portrait of a Life in American Science (Ithaca, 1982), pp. 97- 103. 32. George Ellery Hale to Charles D. Walcott, 24 July 1914. copy in Box 2, ...
Lord of the World: A Novel

Lord of the World: A Novel

Robert Hugh Benson

In an airplane news conference on his return from the Philippines in January 2015, Pope Francis mentioned Robert Hugh Benson’s Lord of the World and said, “I advise you to read it.” It wasn’t the first time the Holy Father had ...
The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller ...

The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller ...

Lily E. Kay

Robert H. Kargon, “Temple to Science: Cooperative Research and the Birth of the California Institute of Technology,” Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, 8 ( 1977), pp. 3–31; Daniel J. Kevles, The Physicists (New York: Vintage Books, ...
The Ethereal Aether: A History of the ...

The Ethereal Aether: A History of the ...

Loyd S. Swenson, Jr.

Kargon, eds., Victorian Science: A SelfPortrait. 41 New YorkSun, February 17 ... Natural Philosophy. 50 Lord Salisbury [Robert Arthur Talbot GascoyneCecil 3rd, Marquess of Salisbury], Evolution: A Retrospect, address to the British Association.
Exposing Electronics

Exposing Electronics

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For other work on Silicon Valley, see Robert Kargon, Stuart W. Leslie, and Erica Schoenberger, 'Far Beyond Big Science: Science Regions and the Organization of Research and Development,' in Peter Galison and Bruce Hevly (eds), Big ...
World's Fairs on the Eve of War: Science, Technology, and ...

World's Fairs on the Eve of War: Science, Technology, and ...

Robert H. Kargon

Gennifer Weisenfeld, “Touring JapanasMuseum: NIPPON and Other Japanese Imperialist Travelogues,” Positions 8, no. 3 (2000): 747–93, esp. 748. 47. Andrea Germer, “Visual Propaganda in Wartime East Asia: The Case of Natori Yonosuke  ...
Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second ...

Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second ...

Levin, Miriam R.

Levin, Miriam R., Sophie Forgan, Martina Heßler, Robert H. Kargon, and Morris Low. 11. John Glessner, The Commercial Club of Chicago: Its Beginning and Something of Its Work (Chicago: Privately printed, 1910), 13 –14, 46, 131–136. 12.
Archaeologia Cambrensis

Archaeologia Cambrensis

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Robert Wynn of Berthdu, Esq., was the eldest son of Hugh Wynn Gruffydd of Berthddu,Esq., the sheriff for 1609. He married Catherine, daughter of John Gruffydd of Carnarvon, Esq., and was the father of Col. Hugh Wynn of Bodysgallen,who ...
International Who's who in Classical Music

International Who's who in Classical Music

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13 May 1949. d. of the late Robert Finlay Glover and Jean Muir. Education: Monmouth School for Girls and St Hugh's Coll., Oxford. Career: Jr Research Fellow St Hugh's Coll. 1973-75. Lecturer in Music 1976-S4, Sr Research Fellow 1982-84; ...
The International Who's Who 2004

The International Who's Who 2004

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13 May 1949; d. of Robert Finlay Glover and Jean Muir; ed Monmouth School for Girls and St Hugh's Coll., Oxford; Jr Research Fellow St Hugh's Coll. 1973-75, Lecturer in Music 1976-84, Sr Research Fellow 1982-84; Lecturer St Anne's Coll.,  ...
Kelvin's Baltimore lectures and modern theoretical physics: ...

Kelvin's Baltimore lectures and modern theoretical physics: ...

Robert Kargon

In 1884 Sir William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) delivered a significant series of lectures on physics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. This book presents the twenty lectures in their original form for the first time.
The Chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny: Reform and the ...

The Chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny: Reform and the ...

Dr Patrick Healy

Chapter 3 The Life and Career of Hugh of Flavigny Hugh of Flavigny was born in 1064 or 1065 in the region around Verdun in the German duchy of Upper Lotharingia. We only know his date of birth indirectly and from the fact that he was aged ...
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1970: January-June

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1970: January-June

Library of Congress. Copyright Office

BASALLA, GEORGE. Victorian science; a self-portrait from the presidential addresses of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Edited by George Basalla, William Coleman & Robert H. Kargon. Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Books ...
The Hugh Hewitt's Little Red Book: Winning in the Age of Trump

The Hugh Hewitt's Little Red Book: Winning in the Age of Trump

Hugh Hewitt

Hugh Hewitt, “the nearly professorial power-baron of conservative media” (Bloomberg News), shares his handbook for how a united GOP government can solve problems and guarantee political success in “an agenda that departs—sometimes ...
The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man

The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man

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Before his most fabulous adventure (celebrated by John G. Neihardt in The Song of Hugh Glass and by Frederick Manfred in Lord Grizzly), Hugh Glass was captured by the buccaneer Jean Lafitte and turned pirate himself until his first chance ...
Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body

Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Copyright © by Hugh Aldersey-Williams First American Edition First published in Great Britain in by Viking, an imprint of ... Production manager: Devon Zahn Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Aldersey-Williams, Hugh.
Missions and Money: Affluence as a Missionary Problem-- ...

Missions and Money: Affluence as a Missionary Problem-- ...

Jon Bonk

Robert L. Gallagher and Paul Hertig A History of Christianity in Asia: Vol. 1, Beginnings to 1500, Samuel Hugh Moffett A History of Christianity in Asia: Vol. 2, 1500–1900, Samuel Hugh Moffett A Reader's Guide to Transforming Mission, Stan ...
Clydesdale Stud Book

Clydesdale Stud Book

Clydesdale Horse Society of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Johnston, Hugh G., C duthel, Inverness, 33,006, p. 122. Johnston, Hugh, Low Knockrioch, Campbeltown, 39,978. P Johnston, Hugh, Whitesands, Dumfries, 39,255. Johnstone, Isaac, Blindcrake, Cookermouth, 35,648, p. 12 . Johnston, James ...

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