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200 10$aWilliam Crookes (1832-1919) and the commercialization of science /$fWilliam H. Brock
210  1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2016.
215   $a1 online resource (587 pages) $cillustrations
225 1 $aScience, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
300   $aFirst published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $a1. 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.
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