Browse Items (46 total)

'A new labor-saving device', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-12-1; 1920s; Americans; Colombia; Columbia; Engineering; Humor; Industrial efficiency; manufacturing; Peonage; Production; Travel; Wheelbarrows

'An echo out of gear', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-12-1; 1920s; Architectural acoustics; Architecture; Democrats; Echo; Engineering; Humor; Political oratory; West (U.S.)

'Latest Works of Fiction; ORSERA', New York Times

Tags: 1920; 1920-11-28; 1920s

'Legs vs. architects', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-11-1; 1920s; Access for the physically handicapped; Architecture; Architecture and the aged; Day, Clarence; Engineering; New York; New York (State); Public buildings

'The spirit of our age', Harpers

Tags: 1918-1945; 1920; 1920-11-1; 1920s; Civilization; Critiques and Comments; Kiser, Samuel E. (Samuel Ellsworth); Popular culture; STS; United States

'The last drive together', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-11-1; 1920s; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Ravenel, Beatrice Witte

'Graphic Record of Medical Pioneers of America', New York Times

Tags: 1920; 1920-10-31; 1920s

'A dangerous doctor', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-10-1; 1920s; Automobile driving; Humor; Medicine; Mothers and daughters; Physicians; Staffing, Funding and Institutions; Telephone; United States

'Outwitting the president of the road', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-10-1; 1920s; Engineering; Humor; John Henry Hill; Lost articles; Management; Mechanical Engineering; Nails and spikes; Railroads; Supervision of employees; United States

'A bird in the handbook', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-10-1; 1920s; Allen, Frederick Lewis; Biology; Bird watching; Birds; etc.; Guidebooks; Ornithology; Societies; United States; Zoology

'The mind in the making (part II)', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-10-1; 1920s; Civilization; Classical; Critiques and Comments; History; Intellectual life; Robinson, James Harvey; Social evolution; STS

'A world for an oculist', Harpers

Tags: 1913-1921; 1914-1918; 1920; 1920-10-1; 1920s; Influence; Perspective (Philosophy); Philosophy; Politics and government; Rabidranath Tagore; Science and civilization; Springer, Fleta Campbell; STS; United States; World War I

'A zooogical wonder', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-9-1; 1920s; Biology; Humor; Income tax; Metaphor; Political oratory; United States; Zoology

'America goes back to work', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-9-1; 1920s; Baja California (Mexico); California; Chinese Americans; Earth Sciences; Economic conditions; Geography; Hungerford, Edward; Imperial Valley; Imperial Valley (Califand Mexico); Irrigation farming; Japanese Americans; Race discrimination; Race relations; San Diego (Calif.); San Francisco (Calif.); Soci

'The convalescent', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-9-1; 1920s; Convalescence; Disease; Kemper, S. H.; Medicine

'The animal comedy', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-9-1; 1920s; Animals; Behavior; Biology; Black bear; Chipmunks; Foxes; Humor; Long, William J. (William Joseph); Maine; Moosehead Lake; Nature study; Tamiasciurus; Woodchuck; Woodpeckers; Zoology

'America goes back to work', Harpers

Tags: 1917; 1920; 1920-8-1; 1920s; Ariz.; Arizona; Bisbee; Coal mines and mining; Coal mining; Copper Miners� Strike; Copper mines and mining; Description and travel; Earth Sciences; Economic conditions; Farmers; Geology; Henry Justin Allen; Hungerford, Edward; Kansas; Kansas City; Kansas City (Kan.); Labor unions; Mexi

'Night-light saving', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-8-1; 1920s; Caricatures and cartoons; Courtship; Fathers and daughters; General Physics; Physics; Systems and standards; Time; United States; Units and Measurement; Walker, A. B.

'An unsuccessful gas attack', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-7-1; 1920s; Chicago; civil engineering; Engineering; Gas; Heating and cooking; Humor; Illinois; Irish Americans; Suicidal behavior

'Concerning chickens', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-7-1; 1920s; African Americans; Atlanta; Biology; Chicken breeders; Chicken stealing; Georgia; Humor; Ornithology; Zoology

'America goes back to work', Harpers

Tags: 1918-1945; 1920; 1920-7-1; 1920s; Automobile industry; Automobile industry and trade; Detroit; Detroit (Mich.); Economic conditions; Engineering; Great Lakes Region; Henry Ford; Hungerford, Edward; Industrial relations; Industries; Mechanical Engineering; Michigan; Ohio; Street-railroads; Strikes and lockouts; Toledo; Toledo (Ohio)

'Don�t tease the animals', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-6-1; 1920s; Animal welfare; Biology; Children and animals; Girls; Hippopotamus; Humor; Quotations; United States; Zoo visitors; Zoology

'Chemistry for every man', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-6-1; 1920s; Analysis; Atomic Chemistry; Atomic structure; Chemistry; Cost and standard of living; Food; Hendrick, Ellwood; Home economics; Househusbands; Physical and theoretical; Research; Textile chemistry; United States

'America goes back to work', Harpers

Tags: 1918-1945; 1920; 1920-6-1; 1920s; Cleveland; Cleveland (Ohio); Clothing trade; Economic conditions; Engineering; Great Lakes Region; Hungerford, Edward; Industrial relations; Industries; manufacturing; New York (State); Ohio; Population; Production; Rochester; Strikes and lockouts; United States

'Bird intimacies', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-5-1; 1920s; Behavior; Biology; Bird watching; Birds; Bluebirds; Burroughs, John; Catbird; Catskill Mountains; Goldfinches; Nests; New York (State); Orioles; Ornithology; Robins; Zoology

'America goes back to work', Harpers

Tags: 1918-1945; 1920; 1920-5-1; 1920s; Altoona; Baldwin Locomotive Works (Philadelphia; Bethlehem Steel Corporation (Bethlehem; Charles William Dabney; Cincinnati; Economic aspects; Economic conditions; Engineering; Herman Schneider; Hungerford, Edward; Industrial relations; Industries; Mechanical Engineering; Ohio; Pa.); Pennsylvan

'The architecture of matter', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-4-1; 1920s; Atomic and Nuclear Physics; Atomic structure; Charles Thomson Rees Wilson; Cloud chamber; Ionizing radiation; Light; Lotka, Alfred J. (Alfred James); Measurement; Physics; Research; Speed

'Tropic frogs', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-4-1; 1920s; Biology; Niles, Blair; Zoology

'The psychology of the half-educated man', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-4-1; 1920s; Americans; Critical thinking; Education; Intellectual life; Medicine; Psychology; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee); United States

'Auto polo in 1950', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-4-1; 1920s; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Air pilots� spouses; Caricatures and cartoons; Engineering; Polo; United States; Walker, A. B.