William Crookes (1832-1919) and the commercialization of science / / William H. Brock

• Autore: Brock W. H (William Hodson)
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (587 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 540.92
• Soggetto topico: Scientists - Great Britain; Chemists - Great Britain; Inventors - Great Britain
• Note generali: First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: William Crookes (1832-1919) and the commercialization of science
• ISBN: 1-315-23404-1; 1-351-87287-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154687603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945.