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Book Accuracy for Seventy Years  1860 1930

Download or read book Accuracy for Seventy Years 1860 1930 written by Pratt & Whitney Company and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Accuracy for Seventy Years 1860 1930

Download or read book Accuracy for Seventy Years 1860 1930 written by Pratt & Whitney Company and published by Pratt & Whitney Measurement Systems. This book was released on 1992 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  New Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1931 with total page 2832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Descriptive Catalog of the History of Economics Collection  1850 1930

Download or read book Descriptive Catalog of the History of Economics Collection 1850 1930 written by University of Kansas. Libraries and published by Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall. This book was released on 1984 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bent of Tau Beta Pi

Download or read book The Bent of Tau Beta Pi written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Newcomen Address

Download or read book Newcomen Address written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Invention and Industry   Cradled in New England

Download or read book Invention and Industry Cradled in New England written by Frederick Steele Blackall and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Papers of Ulysses S  Grant  January 1  1883 July 23  1885

Download or read book The Papers of Ulysses S Grant January 1 1883 July 23 1885 written by Ulysses Simpson Grant and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico had interested Ulysses S. Grant since the young lieutenant fought there. Now, as president of the Mexican Southern Railroad, he emerged as a strong advocate of increased trade and investment. Appointed by President Chester A. Arthur to negotiate a commercial treaty, Grant spent most of January, 1883, at the capital, working with his friend and counterpart Matías Romero. For months, Grant promoted the resulting treaty, granting interviews, giving speeches, and toasting visiting Mexican statesman Porfirio Díaz. Success gave way to bitter failure when the Senate rejected the treaty, led by sugar and tobacco protectionists, amid charges that Grant had crafted provisions to benefit his moribund railroad. Grant's support for Fitz John Porter, a former general who sought to reverse a wartime court-martial, brought him more controversy in Washington. U.S. Senator John A. Logan of Illinois, a stalwart supporter, broke with Grant and fought the measure. The bill passed anyway, but Arthur vetoed it. As Grant lost influence in the White House and in Congress, he turned his attention and energy elsewhere. In September, 1883, Grant joined a tour to celebrate the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad, begun during his first presidential term. From Minnesota to Oregon, Grant saw firsthand the rapid growth of the northwest. "I was not prepared to see so rich a country or one so rapidly developing." On Christmas Eve, 1883, Grant slipped on an icy sidewalk. His injured leg kept him in bed for weeks and on crutches for months. Another crippling blow came in May, 1884, with the failure of Grant & Ward, the brokerage firm co-founded by Ulysses, Jr., in which his father was a silent partner. Ferdinand Ward had bilked the firm of its few real assets and all the Grant family had. Grant was devastated. "I could bear all the pecuniary loss if that was all, but that I could be so long deceived by a man who I had such opportunity to know is humiliating." Buoyed by loans from friends, determined to repay his debts, Grant wrote a series of articles about his Civil War campaigns, then began his Memoirs. In February, 1885, he was diagnosed with cancer. Newspapers published daily updates as Grant steadily declined. Fading health spurred Grant to finish his Memoirs. He accepted a generous publishing offer from Samuel L. Clemens and completed the first of two volumes by March. The second was nearly done in June, when the Grants left sweltering New York City for upstate Mount McGregor. Here Grant finished his work and faced his end, unable to speak, communicating by notes to his doctors and friends. "There never was one more willing to go than I am." Grant died on July 23, his family at his side. The late John Y. Simon was a professor of history at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He wrote or edited, in addition to the thirty published volumes of the Grant Papers, four books, among which is The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant. Aaron M. Lisec is associate editor of the Grant Papers. Leigh Fought is assistant editor of the Grant Papers. Cheryl R. Ragar is textual editor of the Grant Papers.

Book Instruments  Travel and Science

Download or read book Instruments Travel and Science written by Marie Noëlle Bourguet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are now accustomed to conceive of science as an instrumental activity, producing numbers, measurements and graphs by means of sophisticated devices. This book investigates the historical process that gave rise to this instrumental culture. The contributors trace the displacement of instruments across the globe, the spread of practices or precision and the circulation and appropriation of skills and knowledge. Through comparative and contextual approaches, the volume confronts the tension between the local and the global, examining the process of the universalization of science. Bringing together case studies ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, contributors discuss French, German and British initiatives, as well as the knowledge and techniques of travellers in countries such as India, Africa, South East Asia and the Americas. Students and researchers interested in the history of science in both Western and non-Western cultures will find this book a valuable and thought-provoking read.

Book Connecticut  a Bibliography of Its History

Download or read book Connecticut a Bibliography of Its History written by Committee for a New England Bibliography and published by Hanover, NH : University Press of New England. This book was released on 1986 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pure and Applied Science Books  1876 1982

Download or read book Pure and Applied Science Books 1876 1982 written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 220,000 entries representing some 56,000 Library of Congress subject headings. Covers all disciplines of science and technology, e.g., engineering, agriculture, and domestic arts. Also contains at least 5000 titles published before 1876. Has many applications in libraries, information centers, and other organizations concerned with scientific and technological literature. Subject index contains main listing of entries. Each entry gives cataloging as prepared by the Library of Congress. Author/title indexes.

Book A Century in Connecticut

Download or read book A Century in Connecticut written by G Fox and Company, Hartford and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American National Biography

Download or read book American National Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Einstein s Generation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Staley
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0226770575
  • Pages : 505 pages

Download or read book Einstein s Generation written by Richard Staley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Einstein's Generation' offers a new approach to the origins of modern physics by exploring both the material culture that stimulated relativity and the reaction of Einstein's colleagues to his pioneering work.