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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 ...
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.
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, ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Transnationalism and the German City

Transnationalism and the German City

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1. See ArnoldBartetzky andMarc Schalenberg, eds.,UrbanPlanning andthe Pursuit of Happiness:European Variations onaUniversal Theme (18th–21st Centuries)(Berlin: Jovis,2009);and RobertH. Kargon andArthur P. Molella, Invented Edens: ...
Darling

Darling

Frederic Raphael

It was all happening. “Diana?” “Yes. Who's that?” “I rang to congratulateyou.” “ Robert?” “Robert? Who's Robert?” “Who is that?” “I read you're about torollwith Maxim.” “That's notyou,Mai, is it?” “Robert! Mai!What afull lifeyoumust lead.” “ Miles?
Jackson Squared

Jackson Squared

Smallwood F. Robert

Smallwood F. Robert, F. Smallwood Robert F. Smallwood. Acclaim for,. ROBERT. SMALLWOOD'S. WRITING “Robert Smallwood writes in a feral style... unique & gutsy and what I call writing without a net!” -- Rex Reed, New York Observer ...
Journals of Robert Rogers of the Rangers

Journals of Robert Rogers of the Rangers

Robert Rogers

Robert Rogers. Arcadia Ebooks 2016 [email protected] www. arcadiaebooks.altervista.org Robert Rogers Journals of Robert Rogers of the Rangers (1765) INTRODUCTION. FRANKLIN B. HOUGH. The Journals of Major Robert ...
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire,: Extracted Out of ...

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire,: Extracted Out of ...

Robert Thoroton

... of the Gift of Robert de Archis ; and whatever Robert de Grefley, and Albert, his Son, the Founders, gave to the said Church of Swinjheved, fourteen Acres which Robert Rosell gave, and. the Exchanges which Rxsger de Buran and his Men ...
United States Congressional Serial Set

United States Congressional Serial Set

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08/21/79-08/31/79 1079323199 HOUSE RECORDING STUDIO . 10/09/7910/30/ 79 1079324021 ROBERT MCCLORY . 10/24/79 1079324019 ROBERT MCCLORY .. 10/31/79 1079324016 ROBERT MCCLORY .. 11/11/79 793240 ROBERT ...
Robert McNamara's Other War: The World Bank and ...

Robert McNamara's Other War: The World Bank and ...

Patrick Allan Sharma

G. H. R. to Robert McNamara, February 1975, I:20, Robert S. McNamara Papers, LOC. 117. Shaun Farragher to Robert McNamara, September 28, 1977, I:20, Robert S. McNamara Papers, LOC. 118. Blaxall, interview with author. 119. Shapley ...
The Last Linotype: The Story of Georgia and Its Newspapers ...

The Last Linotype: The Story of Georgia and Its Newspapers ...

Millard B. Grimes

In 1981 he received the John E. Drewry Award for Distinguished Achievement in Journalism. ... Robert Tribble Neely Young Robert Chambers ROBERT E. TRIBBLE, 1982-83 Robert E. (Bob) Tribble started his newspaper company with ...
Miscellaneous works of Robert Robinson: to which are ...

Miscellaneous works of Robert Robinson: to which are ...

Robert Robinson

Mr. Robert Robinson was born on the 8th. of October, 1735, at Swaff ham in the county of Norfolk.* His father Mr. Michael Robinson, a native of Scotland, was an exciseman ; his mother was the daughter of Mr. Robert Wilkin, of Mil- denhall, ...
Pioneer Families of Northwestern New Jersey

Pioneer Families of Northwestern New Jersey

William C. Armstrong

We now tabulate herewith the early household descending from (B) Robert Lanning based on data kindly furnished by Mr. Robert C. Lanning of Washington, N.J. Robert Lanning Robert Lanning married Martha Hart who died in 1749. She was ...
Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson

Robert A. Sobieszek ln 2001 a nondescript cardboard package with taped sides was discovered in a warehouse storing what was left of Robert Smithson's estate. Nearly thrown out as trash, the package revealed two large works on paper ...
L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema

L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema

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director Kaliche Warni script Kaliche Warni ROBERT WHEATON A Little Off Mark 1986 (16mm, b&w, 9 min) producer / production co. Robert Wheaton director Robert Wheaton script Robert Wheaton camera S. Torriano Berry editor Robert ...
Tibetan Buddhism and Mystical Experience

Tibetan Buddhism and Mystical Experience

Yaroslav Komarovski

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Buswell, Robert E., and Robert M. Gimello. “Introduction.” In Paths to Liberation: The Mārga and Its Transformations in Buddhist Thought, edited by Robert E. Buswell and Robert M. Gimello, 1–36.
Study and Practice of Meditation: Tibetan Interpretations Of ...

Study and Practice of Meditation: Tibetan Interpretations Of ...

Leah Zahler

Buswell, Robert E., Jr., and Robert M. Gimello. "Introduction." Paths to Liberation: The Marga and Its Transformations in Buddhist Thought. Robert E. Buswell, Jr. and Robert M. Gimello, eds. Kuroda Institute Studies in East Asian Buddhism 7.
Army Air Force Victories

Army Air Force Victories

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... ROBERT J MEYER, ROBERT J MILES, ROBERT E MONCRIEFF, REX E MONTGOMERY, ROBERT P MONTGOMERY, ROBERT P MORRIS, JAMES M MORRIS, JAMES M MORRIS, JAMES M MORRIS, JAMES M MORRIS, JAMES M 1LT ...
Robert Fergusson and the Scottish Periodical Press

Robert Fergusson and the Scottish Periodical Press

Rhona Brown

1Grosart, Robert Fergusson, p. 9. 2 Grosart, Robert Fergusson, p. 37. 3 Irving, Life of Fergusson, p. 11. 4 Irving, Life of Fergusson, p. 13. 5 Sommers, Life of Robert Fergusson, p. 31. 6 Grosart, Robert Fergusson, p. 123. 7 McDiarmid, Vol. I , pp.
Bina Luna

Bina Luna

Robert Gilmore

Robert Gilmore. Robert Gilmore Copyright © 2014 by Robert Gilmore. ISBN: Softcover 978-1-4931-9861-0 eBook Bina Luna title page.

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