Browse Items (27 total)

'MUSIC OF THE SPHERES', The New Yorker

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-12-4; Broadcasting; Engineering; Markey, Morris; music; radio; sports; Telecommunications

'Managing the boss', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-12-1; Industrial management; Industrial relations; Management; Middle managers; Social sciences; Sociology; United States

'The failure of philosophy', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-12-1; Durant, Will; History; Knowledge; Metaphysics; Philosophy; Philosophy and science; Political science; Science and civilization; STS; Theology; Theory of

'Stand by to ram!', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-11-6; Engineering; Green, Fitzhugh; Mechanical Engineering; Navy; Rescue; Sea; Ships

'Is progress a delusion?', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-11-1; Civilization; Critiques and Comments; Durant, Will; History; Philosophy; Progress; STS; World history

'The economics of world health', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-11-1; Cost and standard of living; Cost of; Dublin, Louis Israel; Human capital; Medical care; Medicine; Public health; Staffing, Funding and Institutions; United States

'A WHITE HOT TAMALE.', The New Yorker

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-10-16; automatic engine; Engineering; gasoline lighting engine; Hiram Maxim; Hudson Maxim; invention; Mechanical Engineering; Scarry, Joseph T.

'Gods propose, men dispose', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-10-1; Critiques and Comments; Humor; Huxley, Aldous; Progress; Science and civilization; Social aspects; STS

'Darwin the destroyer', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-9-1; Biology; Bradford, Gamaliel; Charles Darwin; Evolution; Evolution (Biology); Religion and science; Religious aspects; Science and civilization

'Barnum as legislator', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-9-1; African Americans; Connecticut; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; P.T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum; Politics and government; Railroad companies; Root, Harvey Woods; Suffrage; Trials (Divorce)

'Will science displace God?', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-8-1; Belief and doubt; Faith; Fosdick, Harry Emerson; Religion and science; Science and religion; STS

'When I raise my arm', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-8-1; Bodies; Human physiology; Medicine; Muscles; Nervous system; Neuromuscular transmission; Physiology; Ward, C. H. (Charles Henshaw)

'Scientific Evenings in New York, No. 1', The New Yorker

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-7-3; Forteana; Markey, Morris; Parapsychology; Phrenology; Scientific vocation

'The windmill addresses Don Quixote', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-7-1; Coatsworth, Elizabeth Jane; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering

'Memory as the behaviorist sees it', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-7-1; Behaviorism (Psychology); Medicine; Memory; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; United States; Watson, John B. (John Broadus)

'How we think', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-6-1; Behaviorism (Psychology); Medicine; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Thought and thinking; Watson, John B. (John Broadus)

'VIRGIL'S HADES GIVES UP ITS SECRETS; Archaeologists Explore Famous "Flaming Fields" of Antiquity, Near Naples, in Effort to Substantiate Myth VIRGIL'S HADES GIVES UP ITS SECRETS TO ARCHAEOLOGISTS', New York Times

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-5-2

'Atom and I', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-5-1; Astronomers; Atomic and Nuclear Physics; Bennett, Charles A. (Charles Andrew Armstrong); Geologists; Humor; Physics; Scientists; United States

'What is behaviorism?', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-5-1; Behaviorism (Psychology); Human behavior; Medicine; Psychology; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Watson, John B. (John Broadus)

'Will science destroy religion?', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-4-1; Evolution; History; Humanism; Huxley, Julian; Religion and science; Religious; Science; Science and religion; STS

'Two Americans and a whale', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-4-1; American; American books abroad; American literature; Americans; Authors; Biology; Books and reading; Criticism and interpretation; England; Henry David Thoreau; Herman Melville; History and criticism; London; Marine biology; Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major); Walt Whitman

'A drop of water', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-4-1; Chemistry; Molecules; Ward, C. H. (Charles Henshaw); Water; Water chemistry

'On being the right size', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-3-1; Anatomy; Animals; Biology; Body size; Comparative; Haldane, J. B. S. (John Burdon Sanderson); Zoology

'Science and religion', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-2-1; Bible; Fosdick, Harry Emerson; Inspiration; Modernist-fundamentalist controversy; Religion and science; Science and religion; STS; United States

'The candle of astronomy', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-2-1; Astronomy; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Cosmography; History; Milky Way; Physics; Research; United States; Ward, C. H. (Charles Henshaw)

'The motor cars�ll git you, ef you don�t watch out!', Harpers

Tags: 1918-1945; 1920s; 1926; 1926-1-1; Automobiles; Conduct of life; Engineering; Martin, Edward Sandford; Mechanical Engineering; Mechanization; Social aspects; Social life and customs; Social problems; United States; Youth

'Jungle survival', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-1-1; Biology; Blacks; Description and travel; John W. (John Womack) Vandercook; Jungles; Plant Sciences; Social life and customs; Surinam; Survival skills; Vandercook, John W. (John Womack)