Browse Items (27 total)
- Tags: 1926
MUSIC OF THE SPHERES
'MUSIC OF THE SPHERES', The New Yorker
Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-12-4; Broadcasting; Engineering; Markey, Morris; music; radio; sports; Telecommunications
Managing the boss
'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
'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!
'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?
'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
'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.
'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
'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
'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
'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?
'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
'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
'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
'The windmill addresses Don Quixote', Harpers
Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-7-1; Coatsworth, Elizabeth Jane; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering
Memory as the behaviorist sees it
'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
'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)
Atom and I
'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?
'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?
'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
'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
'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
'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
'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
'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!
'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
'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)