William Crookes (1832-1919) and the commercialization of science

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William Crookes (1832-1919) and the commercialization of science
2007, Ashgate Pub. Company
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Table of Contents

A tailor's son
Photographic chemist
Earning a living
Thallium
Carbolic and cattle plague
Selling science, 1865-75
Spiritualism
Mysterious forces
Chemistry is strictly a science of precision
The investigation of Florence Cook, 1872-74
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 commercialization of public health: water
The commercialization of public health: adulteration, sewage and hygiene
Radiant spectroscopy
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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Burlington, VT
Series
Science, technology and culture, 1700-1945
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
540.92, B
Library of Congress
Q143.C7 .B76 2007

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17993181M
ISBN 13
9780754663225
LCCN
2007025302
Library Thing
6224662
Goodreads
4205289

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