Browse Items (107 total)

'A ROMANTIC URGE', The New Yorker

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-4-21; Aeronautics and Aerospace; collaboration; Engineering; Lang, Daniel; Military; rocketry; V-2; Werner von Braun

'A Vacation for Scientists', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-8-25; Critique; Critiques and Comments; Fox, H.B.; Slow down; STS; Vacation

'A-Bomb Mission to Moscow', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-10-27; Future Scenario; Military; Military and Weapons; Murrow, Edward R.; Nuclear war; Other

'America's Only Diamond Mind', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-8-25; Diamond; Earth Sciences; Herndon, Booton; Mining; Speculation

'Annapolis of the Air""', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-5-19; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Aviation; Engineering; Military; Navy; Pilots; training

'Answer to my critics', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-6-1; Astrophysics; Collisions with Earth; Comets; Cosmochronology; Cosmology; Perturbation (Astronomy); Physics; Research; United States; Velikovsky, Immanuel

'Answer to Professor Stewart', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-6-1; Astrophysics; Cosmology; Perturbation (Astronomy); Physics; Research; Solar eclipses; United States; Velikovsky, Immanuel

'Atomic Miracle', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-4-21; atomic energy; Lear, John; Medical Technologies; Medicine; medicine chemotherapy

'Battling Diseases Around the World', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-5-5; Dutton, William; Medicine; Research; Rockefeller Foundation; Staffing, Funding and Institutions; Viruses

'Biological Utilization of Solar Energy', Daedalus

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-7-1; Thimann, Kenneth V.; University, Harvard

'Can Man Foresee the Future?', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-8-18; Forteana; Future; Musel, Robert; Parapsychology; Psychical Research

'Can science make sense?', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-5-1; Autonomy (Philosophy); Philosophy; Relativity (Physics); Science; Specialism (Philosophy); Spigelman, Joseph H.; STS

'Can the Atom Bomb Beat Communism?', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-2-3; Atom Bomb; Lilienthal, David E.; Military; nuclear weapons; Other; weapons

'Can we vaccinate against polio?', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-4-1; Disease; History; Howe, Howard A. (Howard Atkinson); Medicine; Polio; Poliomyelitis; United States; Vaccination; Vaccination of children; Virus diseases; Yellow fever vaccine

'Cortisone and plenty of it', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-9-1; Botanical drug industry; Cortisone; Drugs and Pharmaceuticals; Engel, Leonard; Medicine; Merck & Co; Pharmaceutical biotechnology; Steroid hormone industry; Therapeutic use; United States

'Daddy, Buy Me a Hoover Dam', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-11-10; civil engineering; Dam; Engineering; Kurtzman, Samuel; Toy

'Does Psychiatry Belong in Our Courtrooms?', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-10-6; Courts; Galton, Lawrence; Justice; Medicine; Mental Health; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

'DOWN THE LEASH', The New Yorker

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-11-24; Biology; Dog breeding; Gibbs, Angelica; Human animal relationships; Obedience Training; Pets; Poodles; Zoology

'Electronics and human beings', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-8-1; AI, Automation and Robotics; Automatic control; Automation; Brown, J. J. (John James); Engineering; Human factors; Industrial electronics; Leaver, E. W.; United States

'Grips and Taxes.', The New Yorker

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-2-10; Cable Grips; Engineering; Logan, Andy; Vivien Kellums

'Harvey Slocum Builds Our Mighty Dams', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-5-5; civil engineering; Dams; Engineering; Herndon, Booton; Infrastructure; power

'Has Science Found the Spark of Life?', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-9-1; ATP; Biology; Chemistry; Lear, John; Medicine; origins of life; Other

'Helicopters Cop the Collier Trophy', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-12-22; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Crosby, Willard B.; Engineering; Helicopters; Military

'Lady in a Lab', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-12-1; Chemistry; David, Lester; New products; Women in science

'Letter to a Family Doctor', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-1-1; Advertising; American Medical Association; Anti-communist movements; Antisemitism; Health; Insurance; Medical fees; Medicine; Physician and patient; Staffing, Funding and Institutions; United States; Voto, Bernard Augustine De

'Man's Greatest Challenge', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-5-19; Child welfare; Dutton, William; food production; Medicine; Research; Rockefeller Foundation; Staffing, Funding and Institutions

'Men of the Mine Sweepers', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-11-10; Knight, Charlotte; Military and Weapons; military danger; Mine sweeping; Other; Sailors

'Mental Hospital with a Heart', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-1-20; Hospitals; Medicine; Psychiatry; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Stavisky, Sam

'Millions for Modern Medicine', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-5-12; Dutton, William; Funding; Medicine; Research; Staffing, Funding and Institutions

'Miracle of American Production', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-10-27; Engineering; Future; Management; Military; Production; Schwartz, Harry; War industry; weapons