Science remaking the world
By: edited by Otis W. Caldwell ... and Edwin E. Slosson ...
Contributors: Slosson, Edwin Emery, 1865-1929, joint ed.
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
Published: 1923
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Science; Medicine; Technology
Notes: "Guide to further reading" at the end of most of the chapters.
Lectures delivered during the summer of 1922 at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Table of contents: title: Achievements and obligations of modern science, by O.W. Caldwell.; title: Gasoline as a world power, by E.E. Slosson.; title: The influence of coal-tar on civilization, by E.E. Slosson.; title: Electrons and how we use them, by J. Mills.; title: An investigation on epidemic influenza, by P.K. Olitsky and F.L. Gates.; title: Our present knowledge of tuberculosis, by L.R. Williams.; title: Louis Pasteur and lengthened human life, by O.W. Caldwell.; title: International public health, by G.E. Vincent.; title: Educational value of modern botanical gardens, by G.T. Moore.; title: The meaning of evolution, by J.M. Coulter.; title: Our fight against insects, by L.O. Howard.; title: Insect sociology, by V. Kellogg.; title: How the forests feed the clouds, by R. Zon.; title: The modern potato problem, by C.O. Appleman.; title: Chemistry and economy of food, by H.C. Sherman.; title: Our daily bread and vitamins, by W.H. Eddy.