Author: Royal Institution of Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
Author: Royal Institution of Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with Abstracts of the Discourses
Author: Royal Institution of Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution, with Abstracts of the Discourses
Author: Royal Institution of Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Notices of the Proceedings
Author: Royal Institution of Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Author: Royal Society of EdinburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
List of fellows in v. 1-5, 7-16, 20-30, 32-33, 35-41, 45; continued since 1908 in the Proceedings, v. 28-
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Author: British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Sir James Dewar, 1842-1923
Author: J.S. RowlinsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317054695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Sir James Dewar was a major figure in British chemistry for around 40 years. He held the posts of Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge (1875-1923) and Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution (1877-1923) and is remembered principally for his efforts to liquefy hydrogen successfully in the field that would come to be known as cryogenics. His experiments in this field led him to develop the vacuum flask, now more commonly known as the thermos, and in 1898 he was the first person to successfully liquefy hydrogen. A man of many interests, he was also, with Frederick Abel, the inventor of explosive cordite, an achievement that involved him in a major legal battle with Alfred Nobel. Indeed, Dewar's career saw him involved in a number of public quarrels with fellow scientists; he was a fierce and sometimes unscrupulous defender of his rights and his claims to priority in a way that throws much light on the scientific spirit and practice of his day. This, the first scholarly biography of Dewar, seeks to resurrect and reinterpret a man who was a giant of his time, but is now sadly overlooked. In so doing, the book will shed much new light on the scientific culture of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and the development of the field of chemistry in Britain.