Browse Items (27 total)
- Publication Year is exactly "1917"
The war in the air
'The war in the air', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-12-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airplane factories; Airplanes; Antiaircraft artillery; Aviation; Bailey, Vernon Howe; Curtiss, Glenn Hammond; Engineering; Military; Pictorial works; Seaplanes; United States; United StatesNavy
A Rocky Mountain game trail
'A Rocky Mountain game trail', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-12-1; Bald eagle; Biology; Description and travel; Eaton, Walter Prichard; Game trails; Glacier National Park; Glacier National Park (Mont.); Montana; Mountain animals; Mountain sheep; Ornithology; Rocky Mountain goat; Trail riding; Zoology
A mistake in the horoscope
'A mistake in the horoscope', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-11-1; Astrology and Fortune-Telling; Forteana; Pottle, Emery Bemsley
A strike in the mines
'A strike in the mines', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-11-1; Mitchell, Mary Esther; Other
Forging America�s weapons of war
'Forging America�s weapons of war', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-11-1; Bailey, Vernon Howe; Bethlehem; Bethlehem Steel Corporation (Bethlehem; Chemistry; Manufacture; Ordnance; Pa.); Pennsylvania; Pictorial works; Steel ingots
Mobilizing the women
'Mobilizing the women', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1914-1918; 1917; 1917-11-1; Labour; Other; Societies and clubs; Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva); United States; War work; Women; Women in war; World War I
Scientific management
'Scientific management', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-10-1; Automobiles; Children and adults; Engineering; Humor; Industrial management; Kites; Mechanical Engineering; New York; New York (State); Purchasing; Wishes
Where glaciers feed the apple roots
'Where glaciers feed the apple roots', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-10-1; Apple growers; Biology; Cascade Range; Chelan; Description and travel; Eaton, Walter Prichard; Irrigation farming; Lake (Wash.); Orchards; Plant Sciences; Volcanic soils; Washington (State)
How battles are fought to-day
'How battles are fought to-day', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1914-1918; 1917; 1917-10-1; Artillery; Combined operations (Military science); Drill and tactics; Engineering; France; FranceArmée; Gibbons, Herbert Adams; Infantry; Malleterre, g�n�ral (Pierre Marie Gabriel); Mechanical Engineering; Offensive (Military science); Trench warfare; World War I
Solving the problem of infant mortality
'Solving the problem of infant mortality', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-10-1; Children�s Bureau; Family life surveys; Hendrick, Burton Jesse; Infants; Johnstown; Julia Clifford Lathrop; Manchester; Maternal and infant welfare; Montclair; Mortality; New Hampshire; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Reproduction and Development; Social sciences; Statistics; United States
The infant prodigy of our industries
'The infant prodigy of our industries', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-8-1; Animal locomotion; Animation (Cinematography); Biology; C. Francis (Charles Francis) Jenkins; Cinematography; Coleman Sellers; Croy, Homer; Eadweard Muybridge; History; Inventors; Kinetoscope; Motion picture industry; Motion picture projectors; Photographs; Thomas A. (Thomas A; Zoology
Psychiatry and the army
'Psychiatry and the army', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1914-1918; 1917; 1917-7-1; Bailey, Pearce; Medical care; Medicine; Military life; Military psychiatry; Psychological aspects; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; United States; United StatesArmy; World War I
The advantages of being a baby elephant
'The advantages of being a baby elephant', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-6-1; Biology; Blaisdell, E. Warde; Caricatures and cartoons; Elephants; Nose; Soap bubbles; United States; Zoology
To a logician
'To a logician', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-6-1; Burnett, Dana; Maths
The park of the many glaciers
'The park of the many glaciers', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-6-1; Description and travel; Earth Sciences; Eaton, Walter Prichard; Geography; Glacier National Park; Glacier National Park (Mont.); Montana; Trail riding
The psychology of a spy
'The psychology of a spy', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1914-1918; 1917; 1917-6-1; George, Walter Lionel; Great Britain; Medicine; Psychology; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Secret service; Spies; World War I
Can democracy be efficient?
'Can democracy be efficient?', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1914-1918; 1917; 1917-5-1; Bru�re, Robert W. (Robert Walter); Democracy; Economic aspects; Employee participation; Great Britain; Industrial management; Management; Politicl Science; Social sciences; United States; World War I
What is the matter with the American chemist?
'What is the matter with the American chemist?', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1914-1918; 1917; 1917-4-1; Baekeland, L. H. (Leo Hendrik); Chemistry; Chemists; Dependency on foreign countries; Dyes and dyeing; Economic aspects; Energy Engineering; Research; Technical; Textile fibers; Textile industry; United States; World War I
The safe and useful aeroplane
'The safe and useful aeroplane', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-4-1; Aeronautics; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Aeronautics and civilization; Air pilots; Commercial; Engineering; Hendrick, Burton Jesse; Interviews; Inventors; Military; Orville Wright; Safety measures; United States
The natural history of ice
'The natural history of ice', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-3-1; Arctic regions; Earth Sciences; Engeln, O. D. von (Oscar Diedrich); Geology; Glaciers; Ice mechanics; Melting points; North America; Sea ice
If gasoline continues to rise
'If gasoline continues to rise', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-3-1; Automobile travel; Caricatures and cartoons; Engineering; Gasoline; Johnson, P. D.; Mechanical Engineering; Orientation; Prices; United States
On the crest of the lost Atlantis
'On the crest of the lost Atlantis', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-2-1; Automobile travel; Azores; Description and travel; Earth Sciences; Furlong, Charles Wellington; Geography; São Miguel Island; São Miguel Island (Azores); Social life and customs; Volcanoes
The war against pneumonia
'The war against pneumonia', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-2-1; Disease; Environmental health; Health boards; Hendrick, Burton Jesse; Medicine; N.Y.); New York; New York (State); Pneumonia; Prevention; Research; Rockefeller Hospital (New York
The psychology of shopping
'The psychology of shopping', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-2-1; Compulsive shopping; Department stores; Gibson�s Department Store (New York; Medicine; N.Y.); New York; New York (State); Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Returning goods; Shopping; Strunsky, Simeon; Women consumers
Not an entomological text-book
'Not an entomological text-book', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-1-1; Biology; Entomology; Fathers and sons; Humor; Illinois; Mother (The word); Moths; Peoria; Research; Zoology
From �horseless carriage� to automobile
'From �horseless carriage� to automobile', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-1-1; Assembly-line methods; Automobile industry and trade; Automobiles; Engineering; Kaempffert, Waldemar; manufacturing; Motor fuels; Prices; Production; United States