Browse Items (22 total)

'Industrial efficiency and political waste', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-11-1; Communication policy; Engineering; Federal government; Social legislation; Social policy; Steinmetz, Charles Proteus; Telecommunications; Transportation and state; United States

'The heavens through a spectroscope', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-10-1; Abbot, C. G. (Charles Greeley); Astronomical spectroscopy; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Observations; Physics; Solar; Spectra; Spectrum; Stars

'Edwy Peddie�scientific humanitarian', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-10-1; Kelland, Clarence Budington; Medicine; Staffing, Funding and Institutions

'On the Indian railway', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-10-1; Caste; Engineering; India; Mechanical Engineering; Oakley, Thornton; Railroad travel; Social life and customs

'The master weavers of the desert empire', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-7-1; Antiquities; Crawford, M. D. C. (Morris De Camp); Egyptian influences; Engineering; Inca textile fabrics; Incas; manufacturing; Peru; Production

'Concerning salt-marshes', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-7-1; Biology; Ecology; Gallienne, Richard Le; Nature (Aesthetics); Nature study; Salt marshes; United States

'DISCOVERING THE EVOLUTION THEORY; First Publication of the Correspondence Between Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin Giving the Details of a Case Famous in the Annals of Science ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE: Letters and Reminiscences. By James Marcirant. F', New York Times

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-6-25

'From moccasin to motor-car', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-6-1; Abbott, Keene; Agricultural exhibitions; Fairs and Expositions; Mary Mitchell; Nebraska; Omaha Indians; Other; Social life and customs; Tipis

'Weather and the sky', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-6-1; Clouds; Earth Sciences; Eaton, Walter Prichard; Folklore; Meteorology and Climate Science; Moon; Nature study; Sky; Symbolic aspects; United States; Weather; Weather forecasting

'Coaling-ports of the world', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-6-1; Coaling-stations; Egypt; Energy Engineering; Engineering; Harding, George; Japan; Maritime (International law); Nagasaki; Panama; Panama Canal; Port Said; Shipping; Suez Canal; Trade routes; War

'Simeon Small�dress reformer', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-6-1; Kelland, Clarence Budington; Other

'The superman', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-6-1; Bodies; Medicine; Paine, Albert Bigelow

'The submarine and the torpedo in the blockade of the Confederacy', Harpers

Tags: 1861-1865; 1910s; 1914-1918; 1916; 1916-6-1; Blockades; Civil War; Confederate States of America; Engineering; History; Mechanical Engineering; Naval; Naval operations; Submarine; Submarine warfare; Torpedo-boats; United States; Villard, Oswald Garrison; World War I

'Death Valley and our future climate', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-5-1; Calif.); California; Climate; Climatic changes; Death Valley; Death Valley (Califand Nev.); Description and travel; Earth Sciences; Huntington, Ellsworth; Meteorology and Climate Science; Observations; Owens Lake (Inyo County; Research; Searles Lake (Calif.)

'Telescope man', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-4-1; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Begging; Caricatures and cartoons; Fuller, R. B. (Ralph Briggs); Moon; Physics; Telescopes; Tramps; United States

'Across the Atlantic in a shallop', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-4-1; Engineering; Furlong, Charles Wellington; Great-circle sailing; Mechanical Engineering; North Atlantic Ocean; Schooners; Transatlantic voyages

'Scientific social service of Mr. Small', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-4-1; Kelland, Clarence Budington; Social sciences

'Mr. Possum�s motor-car', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-4-1; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Paine, Albert Bigelow

'The master instinct', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-3-1; Biology; Birds; Burroughs, John; Entomology; Insects; Instinct; Nature study; Plants; Reproduction; Sexual behavior in animals; United States; Zoology

'Calling on the doctor (a monologue)', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-2-1; Fisk, May Isabel; Medicine; Staffing, Funding and Institutions

'A bit of natural history', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-2-1; Animal burrowing; Behavior; Biology; Burroughs, John; Burrowing animals; Catskill Mountains; Chipmunks; Naturalists; Nature study; New York (State); Zoology

'My ocean', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-2-1; Abandoning of; Boys; Description and travel; Earth Sciences; Edward Hungerford; Fathers and sons; Geography; Homes and haunts; Hungerford, Edward; Inland waterway vessels; Lake; Michigan; Ships