It is interesting to visit William Shockley again (after having seen his work on the economics of the atomic bomb here), this time weighing in on the prospects of an atomic bomb-less WWII Pacific ...

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JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post While flipping through William Herschel's 1801 Philosophical Transaction s paper "Observations tending to investigate the Nature of the Sun in order to find the Cause ...

JF Ptak Science Books There have been many Kings of the Hoboes, and Emperor of the Hoboes, in the history of American Hobodom. The most widely recognized of all this royalty is, probably, Mr. Jeff ...

JF Ptak Science Books I think that it is difficult to overstate the importance and long-term significance of Dr. Seuss ' (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-1991, son and grandson of brewmasters) contribution ...

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post Part of the History of Lines series Hermann Plauson, a German engineer and director Fischer-Tropsch Otto Traun Research Laboratories of Hamburg, Germany (in the 1920's ...

JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 1018 “It is probably not worth putting (all) railways under ground.” Ed Teller, 1947 [See also our 50+-part Atomic & Nuclear Bomb series here] There is a universe of ...

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post J.W. Conway launched this missive into the world in 1935--at a time when left-handedness was deemed to be unacceptable and curable--adding his anti-left-handed ...

JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post #76 Nicholas Saunderson (1682-1739) was an extraordinary mathematical talent—he was also blind (from about the age of one), and invented, principally for his own uses, ...

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post There is a real fabulousness in design for these images made by anatomist/physiologist Jean-Baptiste Sarlandiere (1787-1838) in his anatomy of 1829 (Anatomie ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1807 Part of the series The History of Blank, Empty and Missing Things Lewis Carroll created a lovely, simple cipher in the midst of his Alice and Snark and Logic a nd ...

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