MARC Record from Library of Congress

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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn144773496
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050 00 $aQ143.C7$bB76 2008
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100 1 $aBrock, W. H.$q(William Hodson)
245 10 $aWilliam Crookes (1832-1919) and the commercialization of science /$cWilliam H. Brock.
260 $aAldershot, England ;$aBurlington, VT :$bAshgate,$cc2008.
300 $axxvii, 556 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aScience, technology, and culture, 1700-1945
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [491]-541) and index.
505 0 $aA tailor's son -- Photographic chemist : the making of an editor -- Earning a living -- Thallium -- Carbolic and cattle plague -- Selling science, 1865-1875 -- Spiritualism -- Mysterious forces : investigating Mr Home -- Chemistry is strictly a science of precision -- The investigation of Florence Cook, 1872-1874 -- Scandal : the investigations of Annie Eva Fay and Rosina Showers -- The radiometer and its lessons : William Carpenter versus William Crookes -- Dark spaces and the fourth state of matter -- Ubi crux ibi lux : the business of electricity -- The commercialization of public health : water -- The commercialization of public health : adulteration, sewage and hygiene -- Radiant spectroscopy : the rare earths crusade -- Esoteric chemistry in the nineties -- Inert gases and transmutations -- The wheat problem -- Radioactivity -- Welsh gold and African diamonds -- The grand old man of chemical physics, 1907-1913 -- The final years, 1913-1919 -- The afterlife.
600 10 $aCrookes, William,$cSir,$d1832-1919.
650 0 $aScientists$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
650 0 $aChemists$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
650 0 $aInventors$zGreat Britain$vBiography.