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My Life and Work

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Henry Ford

Henry Ford profiles the events that shaped his personal philosophy, and the challenges he overcame on the road to founding the Ford Motor Co…

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

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Charles Darwin

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the autobiography of the British naturalist Charles Darwin which was published in 1887, five years af…

The World Set Free

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H. G. Wells

The World Set Free is a novel published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is considered a prophetical novel foretelling the advent of nuclear…

Creative Chemistry

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Edwin E. Slosson

Slosson reviews the transformation of alchemistry from an obscure and imprecise practice to the science of chemistry. Along the way, he expl…

Stories of Inventors

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Russell Doubleday

Doubleday chronicles the history of everyday inventions that form the foundation of technology now common through the world. While some of t…

Old-Time Makers of Medicine

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James Joseph Walsh

Dr. Walsh's Old-Time Makers of Medicine chronicles the history and development of modern medicine from ancient times up to the discovery of …

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee: A Bee Keeper's Manual

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L. L. Langstroth

Langstroth revolutionized the beekeeping industry by using bee space in his top opened hive. In the summer of 1851 he found that, by leaving…

The Story of Books

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Gertrude Burford Rawlings

Rawlings follows the development of printing from the origins of writing to modern printing. Some of the earliest records are ancient Egypti…

Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air

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Joseph Priestley

Joseph Priestley, FRS was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political th…

California

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J. Tyrwhitt Brooks and Henry Vizetelly

Henry Vizetelly, writing under the pseudonym J. Tyrwhitt Brooks, recalls an expedition to California he took between 1847-1848 . Originally,…