Download or read book Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter 3rd written by James Phinney Baxter and published by . This book was released on with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scientists Against Time written by James Phinney Baxter III and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2023-11-05 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer prize in History. “Mr. Baxter’s history of the OSRD is a fine book, obviously one of the most important documents written so far about the war. The author has a reticent clear style admirably suited to pin down his refractory material... His preoccupation with technical detail has not diminished his grasp of wartime science as a whole.” — E. B. Garside, The New York Times “[A] readable mixture of history and science... This volume covers the whole span of scientific development, radar and radar countermeasures, loran, proximity fuses, the Dukw and Weasel, incendiaries and flame throwers, military medicine, including discussion of high altitude effects, penicillin and insecticides, and finally the Manhattan project and the atomic bomb... This official history of OSRD should be required reading for admirals, generals, and all officers who ever expect some day to exist in the rarefied atmosphere of high level military and naval planning. This volume is the triumphant battle-cry of American men of science returning with their shields.” — Earl W. Thompson, Proceedings of the US Naval Institute “This is the official history of the remarkable achievements of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II, by the President of Williams College.” — Robert Gale Woolbert, Foreign Affairs “[An] admirable book.” — Richard E. Danielson, The Atlantic “Here is one of the most significant books of World War II. It is, as Dr. Vannevar Bush says in a foreword, ‘the brief official history of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. It is the history of a rapid transition, from warfare as it has been waged for thousands of years by the direct clash of hordes of men, to a new type of warfare in which science becomes applied to destruction on a wholesale basis. It marks, therefore, a turning point in the broad history of civilization.’... The reader is constantly impressed by the valuable results obtained by the pooling of the work of British, Canadian, and American scientists... Throughout the entire book, one idea seems to stand out above all others, namely, that free men, working as a team, can outperform all the efforts of those who are driven by bureaucratic decrees.” — John W. Oliver, The American Historical Review “This is a book for which American scientists have been waiting... it presents a clear, detailed, and yet stylistically most attractive account of the victory made possible by the civilian scientific research effort of our Nation during World War II... It will be difficult for anyone to read this book and not become an advocate of a strong, federally supported science organization to continue the research necessary for our future military preparedness and for the solution of basic peacetime problems as well.” — Leonard Carmichael, Science
Download or read book Scientists Against Time written by J.Ph Baxter (III.) and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Man of the Hour written by Jennet Conant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "James B. Conant was a towering figure who stood at the center of the great crises and challenges of the twentieth century. He shaped national policy as a scientist, nuclear pioneer, Cold War statesman, diplomat, and educational reformer for nearly fifty years. As a brilliant young chemist, he supervised the production of poison gas in WWI. As the Nazi threat loomed, he boldly led the interventionist cause in WWII and was tapped by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to be one of the scientific chiefs at the helm of the Manhattan Project, personally overseeing the massive secret effort to develop the atomic bomb. He went on to become one of America's first cold warriors, led the bitter fight to reject the hydrogen bomb, and campaigned tirelessly for the international control of atomic weapons. He continued to exert his influence as President Eisenhower's high commissioner, and then ambassador, to Germany, helping to secure the country's future and strengthen Europe's defenses against Soviet aggression. He achieved national prominence in his twenty-year reign as president of Harvard--the very symbol of the intellectual and social elite--and yet was a champion of meritocracy and open admissions, helping to create the SAT and devoting his later life to improving public schools as the "engine of democracy". For all his brilliance, he never understood the depression that ravaged his family but struggled to keep his wife from succumbing, in the process alienating both his sons. With Man of the Hour, Jennet Conant paints a rich, nuanced portrait of a great American leader and visionary, the last of a vanishing breed."--Jacket.
Download or read book Mathematics in Civilization Third Edition written by Howard L. Resnikoff and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. Enlarged and corrected edition published: New York: Dover Publications, 1984.
Download or read book The Battle of the Atlantic September 1939 May 1943 written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I: The Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-May 1943 concerns Allied efforts to protect shipping, supply, and troop transport against Axis submarines and their supporting aircraft and ships. Morison discusses all U.S. naval operations in the Atlantic from pole to pole and in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Barents Sea, and Atlantic territorial waters.
Download or read book Mathematics in Civilization written by H. L. Resnikoff and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1973 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How mathematics shaped and was shaped by human events. Trigonometry, navigation, cartography, algebra, calculus and related disciplines from ancient Greece through the twentieth century. Bibliography. 203 figures. 7 tables. 14 photos.
Download or read book Growing American Rubber written by Mark R Finlay and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing American Rubber explores America's quest during tense decades of the twentieth century to identify a viable source of domestic rubber. Straddling international revolutions and world wars, this unique and well-researched history chronicles efforts of leaders in business, science, and government to sever American dependence on foreign suppliers. Mark Finlay plots out intersecting networks of actors including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, prominent botanists, interned Japanese Americans, Haitian peasants, and ordinary citizensùall of whom contributed to this search for economic self-sufficiency. Challenging once-familiar boundaries between agriculture and industry and field and laboratory, Finlay also identifies an era in which perceived boundaries between natural and synthetic came under review. Although synthetic rubber emerged from World War II as one solution, the issue of ever-diminishing natural resources and the question of how to meet twenty-first-century consumer, military, and business demands lingers today.
Download or read book The Chemical Warfare Service from Laboratory to Field written by Leo P. Brophy and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chemical Warfare Service written by Leo P. Brophy and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the second in a series of three devoted to the Chemical Warfare Service (CWS) in World War II, now the Chemical Corps, covers research, development, procurement, and distribution of chemical warfare materiel. It traces the history of these activities from the World War I period, when the CWS was activated to supervise the offensive and defensive aspects of gas warfare throughout the Army, until the end of World War II. The first volume in the series, "Organizing for War", discusses the development of the CWS organization and mission as well as personnel management and military training. The third volume, entitled "Chemicals in Combat", will deal with the chemical warfare activities in the theaters of operations. In treating research and development, the present volume concentrates on CWS projects that proved of greatest significance to the armed forces during World War II. It attempts to point up the problems that arose in course of research and development and to indicate the solutions which the scientists hit upon. Since research and development in the zone of the interior was closely related to research and development in the theaters of operations, the volume covers activities in both areas. In contrast to research and development, procurement and distribution differed considerably as between the zone of the interior and the theaters of operations; in the theaters these activities were closely associated with the commanders' combat responsibilities. The volume, therefore, confines itself to a review of procurement and distribution in the zone of the interior, leaving narration of theater activities to the volume "Chemicals in combat".
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Download or read book American History Awards 1917 1991 written by Heinz-D. Fischer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The School of Journalism at Columbia University has awarded the Pulitzer Prize since 1917. Nowadays there are prizes in 21 categories from the fields of journalism, literature and music. The Pulitzer Prize Archive presents the history of this award from its beginnings to the present: In parts A to E the awarding of the prize in each category is documented, commented and arranged chronologically. Part F covers the history of the prize biographically and bibliographically. Part G provides the background to the decisions.
Download or read book The American West Transformed written by Gerald D. Nash and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The industrialization of the American West during World War II brought about rapid and far-reaching social, cultural, and economic changes. Gerald D. Nash shows that the effect of the war on that region was nothing less than explosive.
Download or read book The Development of Modern Chemistry written by Aaron J. Ihde and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient Greek theory to the explosive discoveries of the 20th century, this authoritative history shows how major chemists, their discoveries, and political, economic, and social developments transformed chemistry into a modern science. 209 illustrations. 14 tables. Bibliographies. Indices. Appendices.
