Browse Items (25 total)

'A little lecture on the atom', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-3-1; Allen, Frederick Lewis; Atomic and Nuclear Physics; Atomic theory; Atoms; Humor; Physics

'A weapon of war', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-4-1; College teachers; Conflict of generations; Education; Humor; Johnson, Burges; Social sciences; United States; Young adults

'An oceanic volcano', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-8-1; Asia; Description and travel; Earth Sciences; Geology; H.M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson; Indonesia; Maluku (Indonesia); Southeastern; Ternate Island; Ternate Island (Indonesia); Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major); Volcanoes; Volcanology

'Biassed evolution', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-5-1; Biology; Evolution; Evolution (Biology); Heredity; Human beings; Human evolution; Lotka, Alfred J. (Alfred James)

'By air to the heart of the Andes', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-2-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Blair Niles; Colombia; Description and travel; Engineering; Magdalena River (Colombia); Niles, Blair; Seaplanes

'Captains of industry vs. captains of finance', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-3-1; Capitalism; Communism; Engineering; Filene, E. A. (Edward Albert); Industrial management; manufacturing; Production; Social responsibility of business; United States

'Cave Men Sculptors; Group of Animal Statues 25,000 Years Old Found in Submerged Cavern in France', New York Times

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-1-20

'Magellan finds the strait', Harpers

Tags: 16th century; 1920s; 1924; 1924-10-1; Discoveries in geography; Discovery and exploration; Earth Sciences; Explorers; Fernão de Magalhães; Geography; Hildebrand, Arthur Sturges; Magellan; Portugal; South America; Strait of (Chile and Argentina)

'Niagara milks the cows', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-9-1; Bru�re, Robert W.; civil engineering; Engineering; Hydroelectric power plants; Niagara Falls (N.Yand Ont.); Ontario; United States; Water-power

'One of an Immortal Pair; Mme. Curie on the Struggles of a Scientist PIERRE CURIE. By Marie Curie. Translated by Charlotte and Vernon Kellogg. With an introduction by Mrs. William Brown Melony, and autobiographical notes by Marie Curie. New York: The Macmi', New York Times

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-1-6

'Photographs', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-3-1; Child photographers; Engineering; Humor; Other; Photography; Portor, Laura Spencer; Portrait photography; United States

'Protecting civilization', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-1-1; Medical education; Medicine; Medicine and psychology; Mental illness; Paton, Stewart; Physicians; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Social aspects; Social psychology; United States

'Relativity and Major Rooke', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-4-1; Ertz, Susan; Physics; Relativity

'Relativity and the motorist', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-3-1; Automobile driving; Humor; Physics; Relativity; United States

'Rice and volcanoes', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-5-1; Asia; Description and travel; Dutch; Earth Sciences; Geography; H.M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson; Indonesia; Java; Java (Indonesia); Social life and customs; Southeastern; Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

'Sea-island magic', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-11-1; Biology; Birds; Marshes; Ornithology; Sass, Herbert Ravenel; Sea Islands; Water birds; Zoology

'Sweet are the uses of a radio', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-1-1; Engineering; Levy, Newman; Telecommunications

'The conquest of scarlet fever', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-12-1; Disease; George Dick; Gladys Henry Dick; Gruening, Ernest; Human experimentation in medicine; Medical research personnel; Medicine; Scarlatina; Scarlet fever toxin; United States

'The human body�its care and prevention', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-4-1; Bodies; Diet; Exercise; Health; Humor; Leacock, Stephen; Longevity; Medicine; United States

'The latest ideas in physics', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-4-1; Atomic and Nuclear Physics; Atoms; Electricity; Lodge, Oliver Sir; Physics; United States

'The new control of surgeons', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-2-1; American College of Surgeons; Medical care; Medical ethics; Medicine; Professional ethics; Quality control; Shepherd, William G. (William Gunn); Surgeons; Surgery; United States; Unnecessary

'The rattle of machinery', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1923-1929; 1924; 1924-5-1; Advertising; Direct-mail; Engineering; manufacturing; Martin, Edward Sandford; Politics and government; Production; United States

'The romance of the atom', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-7-1; Atomic and Nuclear Physics; Atomic structure; Atomic theory; Atoms; Chemistry; Harrow, Benjamin; History; Physical and theoretical; Physics

'The ultimate frog', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-11-1; Biology; Dickinson, Roy; Zoology

'When the floods clap their hands', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-4-1; Earth Sciences; Farm life; Floods; Hunter, Katharine Upham; Meteorology and Climate Science; New Hampshire