Category: History - Ancient
Recent Years of Egyptian Exploration 625 The Gold Sands of Cape Nome 633 A State Official on Excessive Taxation 645 Latest Developments With the X Rays 659 A Hundred Years of Chemistry 673 The Science of Art Form 685 Steam Turbines and High-speed Vessels 696 A Survival of Medi...
Recent Years of Egyptian Exploration 625 The Gold Sands of Cape Nome 633 A State Official on Excessive Taxation 645 Latest Developments With the X Rays 659 A Hundred Years of Ch...
3. Part 3Nome prints to-day three newspapers, the first issue of the first journal, the Nome News, appearing about the 10th of October. Its selling price was twenty-five cents. Up to the...
11. Part 11The independent plant, beyond serious question, gets its food from outside itself. There are two sources for these substances--namely, the soil-water bathing the absorbing roots...
12. Part 12Mr. Mivart now knows where he is. He occupies the broad ground of scientific truth. He breathes the free air of intellectual and moral liberty. He still professes loyalty to the...
10. Part 10Taxil’s long series of mystifications, extending over a dozen years, culminated in the convocation of an antimasonic congress at Trent, on September 26, 1896, to the president o...
5. Part 5In the first place, what is the present state of our knowledge of the X rays? Have we more efficient methods of producing them, and can we see farther into the recesses of the h...
7. Part 7The theory of valence was a logical outgrowth from its predecessors, whose valuable features it included in a wider generalization, but it was the work of no one master mind. Ma...
6. Part 6When we consider these experiments we see that the X rays act toward phosphorescent matter much as the spark in air behaves toward the photographic plate. Now, these results, ta...
2. Part 2One of the most interesting contributions to the history of gold and gold mining has undoubtedly been discovered in the region of Cape Nome, Alaska, during the past summer. Vagu...
8. Part 8If the two vases which are represented in the view by vertical and horizontal, straight and curved lines, were actually before us you would have difficulty in finding any vertic...
13. Part 13=Alkali Soils in Montana.=--Mr. F. W. Traphagen, of the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station, ascribes the origin of the alkali soil in the arid regions to the failure of the...
4. Part 4That this enormous largess, wrested from the taxpayers without the slightest consideration for their own wants and sufferings, is unwisely dispensed in many cases Mr. Roberts fu...
14. Part 14Bulletins, Reports, Announcements, etc. American Association for the Advancement of Science: Forty-eighth Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, 1899. Proceedings. Pp. 527, with plates...
9. Part 9As to the propellers, these approach closely to the usual form. It has, however, been found best to place two propellers of approximately the same pitch on each shaft at some co...
15. Part 15In some editions of this eBook, the superscript “e” in the address on page 708 appears as a normal “e”, the asterism immediately following it appears as ::, and subscripted numb...