Browse Items (175 total)

'Results of psychical research', Harpers

Tags: 1900; 1900-4-1; 1900s; Forteana; Great Britain; History; Hyslop, James H. (James Hervey); Parapsychology; Research; Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain); Spiritualism

'The century�s progress in experimental psychology', Harpers

Tags: 1900; 1900-5-1; 1900s; Benjamin Rush; Brain; Charles; Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond; Ernst Heinrich Weber; François Magendie; Gustav Theodor Fechner; History; J.M. (Jean Martin) Charcot; Medicine; Mental illness; Neurology; P.; Paul Broca; Philippe Pinel; Physiological aspects; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Sir Bell; Williams, Henry Smith

'Balloons in war', Harpers

Tags: 1861-1865; 1898; 1900; 1900-6-1; 1900s; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Balloons; Civil War; Engineering; France; Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington); History; Spanish-American War; T.S.C. (Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt) Lowe; United States

'Man and the upper atmosphere', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1902; 1902-2-1; Aeronautics; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Atmosphere; Balloons; Engineering; History; Observations; S�ring, Reinhard Joachim; Upper

'Fifty years of synthetic chemistry', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1902; 1902-4-1; Chemistry; Chemists; History; M. (Marcellin) Berthelot; Snyder, Carl; Synthetics

'Recreations in cartography', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1902; 1902-4-1; Cartography; Earth Sciences; Geography; History; Lyttle, Bertelle M.

'A charmed American war-ship', Harpers

Tags: 18th century; 1900s; 1902; 1902-5-1; Cruisers (Warships); Engineering; Enterprise (Ship : 1874-1909); History; Mechanical Engineering; Naval; Spears, John R.; To 1900; United States

'Newest definitions of electricity', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1902; 1902-10-1; Electricity; Electromagnetic theory; Electromagnetism; Experiments; History; Physics; Snyder, Carl

'Animal immortality', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1905; 1905-11-1; Animal immortality; Animal psychology; Animals; Forteana; History; Human-animal relationships; Immortality; Rabbit, Peter; Religious aspects; Survival After Death

'Terrestrial magnetism', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1906; 1906-6-1; Adams, Cyrus C. (Cyrus Cornelius); Discoveries in science; Earth Sciences; Geography; Geomagnetism; Geophysics; History; Magnetic declination; Observations; Secular variations

'The prevention of infectious diseases', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1909; 1909-3-1; Communicable diseases; Disease; Edward Jenner; History; Louis Pasteur; Medicine; Prevention; Preventive; Rabies; Smallpox; Tetanus; Torrey, John C.; Typhoid fever; Vaccination

'On the chemical interpretation of life', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1909; 1909-5-1; Biology; Chemistry; Duncan, Robert Kennedy; Experiments; History; Life; origins of life; Other; Physical and theoretical; Radioactivity; Substance (Philosophy)

'The microbe as social reformer', Harpers

Tags: 1910; 1910-9-1; 1910s; Bacteriological laboratories; Bru�re, Robert W. (Robert Walter); Charities; Charity Organization Society (New York; Cholera; Cholera, Tuberculosis; Coney Island (New York; Diphtheria; Disease; Health boards; History; Infants; Medicine; Moral and ethical aspects; Mortality; N.Y.); New York; New York (State); Poor; Prevention

'The soil as a battle-ground', Harpers

Tags: 1910; 1910-10-1; 1910s; Agricultural; Bacteriology; Biology; Effect of ammonia on; Hall, A. D.; History; Microbiology; Plants; Research; Soil inoculation; Soil microbiology

'In praise of bridges', Harpers

Tags: 1910; 1910-11-1; 1910s; Bridges; Bridges in literature; Brooklyn Bridge (New York; civil engineering; Design and construction; Engineering; Henderson, Archibald; History; Iron and steel; Italy; N.Y.); United States; Venice

'Camphor', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1911; 1911-2-1; Biology; Camphor; Camphor industry and trade; Camphor tree; Duncan, Robert Kennedy; Germany; History; Japan; Monopolies; Plant Sciences; Research; Taiwan; United States

'Some recent experiments in human conservation', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1911; 1911-3-1; Bru�re, Robert W. (Robert Walter); Charities; Charity Organization Society (New York; Children; Employment; History; Infants; Law and legislation; Medicine; Moral and ethical aspects; Mortality; N.Y.); New York; New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (New York; Public health

'Industrial research', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1913; 1913-2-1; Ammonia; Chemistry; Duncan, Robert Kennedy; History; Industrial; Physical scientists; Research; Rubber chemistry; United States; Vocational guidance

'The conservation of the fertility of soil', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1913; 1913-3-1; Agricultural chemistry; Agriculture; Applied Chemistry; Chemistry; Effect of nitrogen on; England; England); Experimentation; Hall, A. D.; Harpenden; History; Nitrogen in agriculture; Plants; Rothamsted Experimental Station (Harpenden; Soil conservation; United States

'The real dry-farmer', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1914; 1914-5-1; Arid regions agriculture; Arid regions forestry; Biology; Great Plains; History; Mesquite; New; Olive; Plant Sciences; Smith, J. Russell (Joseph Russell); Southwest; Tunisia

'American contributions to medical science', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1914; 1914-6-1; Anesthesia; Cancer; Hendrick, Burton Jesse; History; Indigestion; Insects as carriers of disease; Intubation; John Collins Warren; Joseph O�Dwyer; Larynx; Medical research personnel; Medicine; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Other; Peyton Rous; Puerperal septicemia; Research; Treatment; United

'Among the salt-harvesters of the Caribbean', Harpers

Tags: 17th century; 1910s; 1914; 1914-7-1; Araya; Coche Island; Coche Island (Venezuela); Commerce; Furlong, Charles Wellington; History; Other; Salt industry and trade; Venezuela

'The submarine and the torpedo in the blockade of the Confederacy', Harpers

Tags: 1861-1865; 1910s; 1914-1918; 1916; 1916-6-1; Blockades; Civil War; Confederate States of America; Engineering; History; Mechanical Engineering; Naval; Naval operations; Submarine; Submarine warfare; Torpedo-boats; United States; Villard, Oswald Garrison; World War I

'The infant prodigy of our industries', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-8-1; Animal locomotion; Animation (Cinematography); Biology; C. Francis (Charles Francis) Jenkins; Cinematography; Coleman Sellers; Croy, Homer; Eadweard Muybridge; History; Inventors; Kinetoscope; Motion picture industry; Motion picture projectors; Photographs; Thomas A. (Thomas A; Zoology

'The revival of antisepsis', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1918; 1918-5-1; Alexis Carrel; Asepsis and antisepsis; Aseptic and antiseptic; H.D. Dakin; History; Joseph Jackson Lister; Medicine; N.Y.); New York; New York (State); Research; Rockefeller Hospital (New York; Skerrett, Robert G.; Surgery

'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

'In one man�s life', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1921; 1921-9-1; Alexander Graham Bell; Bell Telephone Company; Capitalists and financiers; Engineering; Gardiner G. Hubbard; History; Paine, Albert Bigelow; Patent suits; Patents; Telecommunications; Telephone; Theodore N. Vail; United States; W.H. Forbes; Western Union Telegraph Company

'Fruit of the earth', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1922; 1922-2-1; Biology; Eaton, Walter Prichard; Edible; Folklore; Food; History; Medicinal plants; Plant Sciences; Wild plants

'The Russia of to-morrow', Harpers

Tags: 1917-1921; 1917-1945; 1920s; 1922; 1922-4-1; Avksentiev, Nicholas D.; Communism; Counterrevolutionaries; Economic conditions; History; Other; Politics; Revolution; Soviet Union

'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