02664oam 2200505I 450 991015468760332120230808200817.01-315-23404-11-351-87287-710.4324/9781315234045 (CKB)3710000000971782(MiAaPQ)EBC4770067(OCoLC)966313116(EXLCZ)99371000000097178220180706e20162008 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierWilliam Crookes (1832-1919) and the commercialization of science /William H. BrockAbingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (587 pages) illustrationsScience, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing.1-138-25988-8 0-7546-6322-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. A tailor's son -- 2. Photographic chemist. The making of an editor -- 3. Earning a living -- 4. Thallium -- 5. Carbolic and cattle plague -- 6. Selling science, 1865-1875 -- 7. Spiritualism -- 8. Mysterious forces : investigating Mr Home -- 9. Chemistry is strictly a science of precision -- 10. The investigation of Florence Cook, 1872-1874 -- 11. Scandal : the investigations of Annie Eva Fay and Rosina Showers -- 12. The radiometer and its lessons : William Carpenter versus William Crookes -- 13. Dark spaces and the fourth state of matter -- 14. Ubi crux ibi lux : the business of electricity -- 15. The commercialization of public health : water -- 16. The commercialization of public health : adulteration, sewage and hygiene -- 17. Radiant spectroscopy : the rare earths crusade -- 18. Esoteric chemistry in the nineties -- 19. Inert gases and transmutations -- 20. The wheat problem -- 21. Radioactivity -- 22. Welsh gold and African diamonds -- 23. The grand old man of chemical physics, 1907-1913 -- 24. The final years, 1913-1919 -- 25. The afterlife.Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945.ScientistsGreat BritainBiographyChemistsGreat BritainBiographyInventorsGreat BritainBiographyScientistsChemistsInventors540.92Brock W. H(William Hodson),959077MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154687603321William Crookes (1832-1919) and the commercialization of science2172856UNINA