Browse Items (21 total)

'EINSTEIN EXPOUNDS HIS NEW THEORY; It Discards Absolute Time and Space, Recognizing Them Only as Related to Moving Systems. IMPROVES ON NEWTON Whose Approximations Hold for Most Motions, but Not Those of the Highest Velocity. INSPIRED AS NEWTON WAS But by', New York Times

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-12-3

'The small frog', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-12-1; Biology; Rhodes, Harrison; Zoology

'War inventions that came too late', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1914-1918; 1919; 1919-11-1; Asphyxiating and poisonous; Balloon gases; Caterpillar tractors; Design and Invention; Drone aircraft; Engineering; Gases; Helium; Inventions; Stockbridge, Frank Parker; Technology; United States; War use; World War I

'The choice of a mate', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-8-1; Gender and Sexuality; Lewis, Mayone; Married people; Mate selection; Other; Single women; United States

'A nature-lover passes', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-8-1; Biology; Henderson, Daniel

'The real conquest of the air�a laboratory problem', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-8-1; Aeronautics; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Aerospace engineering; Airplanes; Design and construction; Engineering; Fuel; Safety measures; Speed, Buckner; United States

'Solving the problem of the Arctic', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-8-1; Arctic regions; Banks Island (N.W.T.); Cairns; Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918); Discovery and exploration; Earth Sciences; Francis Leopold; Geography; Ice; Parry Islands (Nunavut); Prince Patrick Island (Parry Islands); Sir M�Clintock; Sled dogs; Stefansson, Vilhjalmur; Survival skills; Vilhjalmur

'American capitals of industry', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-7-1; Automobile industry and trade; Buffalo (N.Y.); Cincinnati (Ohio); Cities and towns; Cleveland; Cleveland (Ohio); Detroit; Detroit (Mich.); Drawbridges; Engineering; Ferriss, Hugh; Indianapolis (Ind.); Iron industry and trade; Manufacturing industries; Mechanical Engineering; Michigan; Mills and mill-work

'Prophets and pattern-followers', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-7-1; Creative ability in business; Creative ability in technology; Design and Invention; Engineering; Rubber industry and trade; Strategic planning; Technological innovations; Telephone supplies industry; United States; Updegraff, Robert R. (Robert Rawls)

'Across Mongolia by motor-car', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-6-1; Andrews, Roy Chapman; Automobile travel; Dalai Lama XIII; Dalai lamas; Description and travel; Design and construction; Engineering; Gobi Desert; Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China); Hunting; Mechanical Engineering; Mongolia; Mongols; Social life and customs; Thub-bstan-rgya-mtsho; Trans-Siberian Railway; Ulaanbaata

'A new form of matter', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-5-1; Beresford, J. D. (John Davys); Forteana; Materialization; Parapsychology; Parapsychology and science

'The monkey with the green pea-jacket', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-5-1; Biology; Portor, Laura Spencer; Zoology

'Solving the problem of the Arctic', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-5-1; Arctic regions; Behavior; Building; Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918); Cold weather clothing; Discovery and exploration; Earth Sciences; Geography; Ice and snow; Ole Andreasen; Polar bear; Sealing; Stefansson, Vilhjalmur; Storker Storkersen; Survival skills; Vilhjalmur Stefansson

'Through Sheffield smoke', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-5-1; Bernard Shaw; Description and travel; Earth Sciences; England; Geography; Industrial relations; Labor laws and legislation; Labour Party (Great Britain); Reconstruction (1914-1939); Sheffield; Sheffield (England); Social conditions; Vorse, Mary Heaton

'The chemists of the future', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-4-1; Aims and objectives; Chemistry; Chemists; Conduct of life; Education; Hendrick, Ellwood; Humanistic; Intellectual life; Science; Study and teaching; United States

'On the beliefs and convictions of guinea-pigs', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-4-1; Behavior; Biology; Guinea pigs; Guinea pigs as pets; Human-animal relationships; Humor; Philosophy of nature; Portor, Laura Spencer; United States; Zoology

'Voices of the universe', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-4-1; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Atmospherics; Interstellar communication; Physics; Speed, Buckner; United States; Wireless communication systems

'Solving the problem of the Arctic', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-4-1; Absence and presumption of death; Arctic regions; Bob Bartlett; Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918); Discovery and exploration; Earth Sciences; Geography; Karluk (Ship); Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary; Stefansson, Vilhjalmur; Survival skills; Vilhjalmur Stefansson

'Huns of the air', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-1-1; Behavior; Beneficial birds; Berkshire Hills; Biology; Bird pests; Bird watching; Birds of prey; Eastern screech owl; Eaton, Walter Prichard; Goshawk; Great horned owl; Hawks; Massachusetts; Nature study; Ornithology; Owls; Peregrine falcon; Red-tailed hawk; Shrikes; Snowy owl; United States; Zoology

'The first and only cruise of the �Caoutchouc�', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-1-1; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Moitoret, Anthony F.

'The majestic movies', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-1-1; Engineering; Motion picture acting; Motion picture actors and actresses; Motion picture audiences; Motion pictures; Rhodes, Harrison; Social aspects; Telecommunications; United States