Author: Ella Schwartz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1547602295
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A fresh approach to a timely topic, Stolen Science is a fascinating compendium of stories of uncredited scientists and inventors throughout the ages. Over the centuries, women, people from underrepresented communities, and immigrants overcame prejudices and social obstacles to make remarkable discoveries in science--but they weren't the ones to receive credit in history books. People with more power, money, and prestige were remembered as the inventor of the telephone, the scientists who decoded the structure of DNA, and the doctor who discovered the cause of yellow fever. This book aims to set the record straight and celebrate the nearly forgotten inventors and scientists who shaped our world today.
Stolen Science
Author: Ella Schwartz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1547602295
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A fresh approach to a timely topic, Stolen Science is a fascinating compendium of stories of uncredited scientists and inventors throughout the ages. Over the centuries, women, people from underrepresented communities, and immigrants overcame prejudices and social obstacles to make remarkable discoveries in science--but they weren't the ones to receive credit in history books. People with more power, money, and prestige were remembered as the inventor of the telephone, the scientists who decoded the structure of DNA, and the doctor who discovered the cause of yellow fever. This book aims to set the record straight and celebrate the nearly forgotten inventors and scientists who shaped our world today.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1547602295
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A fresh approach to a timely topic, Stolen Science is a fascinating compendium of stories of uncredited scientists and inventors throughout the ages. Over the centuries, women, people from underrepresented communities, and immigrants overcame prejudices and social obstacles to make remarkable discoveries in science--but they weren't the ones to receive credit in history books. People with more power, money, and prestige were remembered as the inventor of the telephone, the scientists who decoded the structure of DNA, and the doctor who discovered the cause of yellow fever. This book aims to set the record straight and celebrate the nearly forgotten inventors and scientists who shaped our world today.
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Author: Metallurgical Society of AIME.
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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Scientific American
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Pages : 446
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American Gas-light Journal and Chemical Repertory
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Category : Gas manufacture and works
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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Category : Gas manufacture and works
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Pages : 868
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Light, Heat and Power
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Category : Gas manufacture and works
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Category : Gas manufacture and works
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Pages : 710
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Author: American Institute of Mining Engineers
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 994
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 994
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The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2180
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2180
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Uncharted
Author: Erez Aiden
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1594632901
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
“One of the most exciting developments from the world of ideas in decades, presented with panache by two frighteningly brilliant, endearingly unpretentious, and endlessly creative young scientists.” – Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature Our society has gone from writing snippets of information by hand to generating a vast flood of 1s and 0s that record almost every aspect of our lives: who we know, what we do, where we go, what we buy, and who we love. This year, the world will generate 5 zettabytes of data. (That’s a five with twenty-one zeros after it.) Big data is revolutionizing the sciences, transforming the humanities, and renegotiating the boundary between industry and the ivory tower. What is emerging is a new way of understanding our world, our past, and possibly, our future. In Uncharted, Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel tell the story of how they tapped into this sea of information to create a new kind of telescope: a tool that, instead of uncovering the motions of distant stars, charts trends in human history across the centuries. By teaming up with Google, they were able to analyze the text of millions of books. The result was a new field of research and a scientific tool, the Google Ngram Viewer, so groundbreaking that its public release made the front page of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe, and so addictive that Mother Jones called it “the greatest timewaster in the history of the internet.” Using this scope, Aiden and Michel—and millions of users worldwide—are beginning to see answers to a dizzying array of once intractable questions. How quickly does technology spread? Do we talk less about God today? When did people start “having sex” instead of “making love”? At what age do the most famous people become famous? How fast does grammar change? Which writers had their works most effectively censored by the Nazis? When did the spelling “donut” start replacing the venerable “doughnut”? Can we predict the future of human history? Who is better known—Bill Clinton or the rutabaga? All over the world, new scopes are popping up, using big data to quantify the human experience at the grandest scales possible. Yet dangers lurk in this ocean of 1s and 0s—threats to privacy and the specter of ubiquitous government surveillance. Aiden and Michel take readers on a voyage through these uncharted waters.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1594632901
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
“One of the most exciting developments from the world of ideas in decades, presented with panache by two frighteningly brilliant, endearingly unpretentious, and endlessly creative young scientists.” – Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature Our society has gone from writing snippets of information by hand to generating a vast flood of 1s and 0s that record almost every aspect of our lives: who we know, what we do, where we go, what we buy, and who we love. This year, the world will generate 5 zettabytes of data. (That’s a five with twenty-one zeros after it.) Big data is revolutionizing the sciences, transforming the humanities, and renegotiating the boundary between industry and the ivory tower. What is emerging is a new way of understanding our world, our past, and possibly, our future. In Uncharted, Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel tell the story of how they tapped into this sea of information to create a new kind of telescope: a tool that, instead of uncovering the motions of distant stars, charts trends in human history across the centuries. By teaming up with Google, they were able to analyze the text of millions of books. The result was a new field of research and a scientific tool, the Google Ngram Viewer, so groundbreaking that its public release made the front page of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe, and so addictive that Mother Jones called it “the greatest timewaster in the history of the internet.” Using this scope, Aiden and Michel—and millions of users worldwide—are beginning to see answers to a dizzying array of once intractable questions. How quickly does technology spread? Do we talk less about God today? When did people start “having sex” instead of “making love”? At what age do the most famous people become famous? How fast does grammar change? Which writers had their works most effectively censored by the Nazis? When did the spelling “donut” start replacing the venerable “doughnut”? Can we predict the future of human history? Who is better known—Bill Clinton or the rutabaga? All over the world, new scopes are popping up, using big data to quantify the human experience at the grandest scales possible. Yet dangers lurk in this ocean of 1s and 0s—threats to privacy and the specter of ubiquitous government surveillance. Aiden and Michel take readers on a voyage through these uncharted waters.
Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania for 1885-1887
Author: Geological Survey of Pennsylvania
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Includes 3 atlases of fold. plates, fold. maps, fold. tab. which accompany 1885; 1886, pts. 3-4.
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Includes 3 atlases of fold. plates, fold. maps, fold. tab. which accompany 1885; 1886, pts. 3-4.
Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania for ...
Author: Geological Survey of Pennsylvania
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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