WEB ChemTeamIs
an
all-round
site
for
high
school
chemistry.
Joseph
Priestley:The Discovery of Oxygen, 1776[At this Site]Michael
Faraday(1791-1867):The Chemical History of A Candle, 1860[At this
Site]Louis
Pasteur(1822-1895):Physiological Theory of Fermentation, 1879[At
this
Site])Geology(Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz:Ice and Glaciers, 1865[At this Site])Medicine(Edward Jenner(1749-1823):Three Original Publications On Vaccination Against Smallpox,
1798[At
this
Site]Oliver
Wendell
Holmes(1809-1894):Contagiousness Of Puerperal Fever, 1843[At this
Site]Joseph
Lister(1827-1912):Antiseptic Principle Of The Practice of Surgery,
1867[At
this
Site]Louis
Pasteur(1822-1895):Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery,
1878[At
this
Site]Louis
Pasteur(1822-1894):Extension of The Germ Theory, 1880[At this Site]H.C.
Ernst:Extension of The Germ Theory, 1880[At this Site])
The Industrial Revolution-The Agricultural Revolution
of
the
17th-18th
Centuries(Abraham
Cowley(1618-1667):Of Agriculture, 1650[At this Site]Turnips John
A.
Mazis:The Potato[Modern Account][At UMN]Field Rotation
Animal
Breeding)The
Revolution
in
the
Manufacture
of
Textiles(Arnold
Toynbee(1852-1883):Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England[At
McMaster][Full
Text]Curt
Anderson:The Two Countries That Invented the Industrial Revolution[At
Darex.com][Modern
Article]An
explanation
of
the
different
functions
of
invention
in
Briatin
and
the
United
States.)The
Revolution
in
Power(WEB
The
Steam
Engine
Library
Full
texts
of
many
books
on
the
history
of
the
Steam
Engine.
A
splendid
resource.
WEB
The Kew Bridge Steam Museum[In the UK]The Steam Engine[At Toronto]A short modern account
of
how
a
steam
engine
works,
and
what
was
improved
in
the
18th
century.
Thomas
Newcomen:The Newcomen Engine[At exeter.ac.uk][Sketch picture]James
Watt(1736-1819):The
Steam
Engine,
c.
1769[At
Museon.nl][Picture]James
Watt(1736-1819)and
Matthew
Boulton:An Industrial Steam Engine[witha 64 inch bore!],
1820[At
Kew
Bridge
Steam
Museum][Picture]James
Watt(1736-1819):The
Steam
Engine,
c.
1769[At
this
Site][Picture]Thomas
H.
Marshall:James Watt, 1925[At Steam Engine Library][Full
Text]Richard
Guest:Compendious History of the Cotton Manufacture,
1823,
excerpts[At
this
Site]On
the
application
of
steam
power
to
cotton
looms
and
the
social
effects.
William
Radcliffe:Origin of...Power Loom Weaving, 1828, excerpts[At
this
Site]On
the
application
of
steam
power
to
cotton
looms.
RailroadsSteam
Ships:Line of American Packets Between New York and Liverpool,
Evening
Post,
New
York,
October
27,
1817[At
LSU]Not
steam
ships,
but
an
indication
of
the
growth
of
a
market.
Isambard
Kingdom
Brunel(1806-1859):The
S.S.
Great
Britain,
1839[At
Digiweb][Picture+text]
The
first
ocean-going
steam
propeller
ship.
Two Steamboat Diasters at a Time, The U.S. Nautical Magazine and Naval Journal
Vol.
IV(1855),
p
259.[At
LSU]D.
McGee:The History of Machine Engineering in Canda[At
Toronto][Modern
Text]
An
online
project
which
clearly
illustrates
Marine
technology
developments,
and
not
just
in
Canada!)The
Great
Engineers(List of
the
Great
Engineers[At
Heriot-Watt]Charles Babbage
Page,(1791-1871)[At
Exeter
University]Babbage
was
a
major
pioneer
in
computing.
Isambard
Kingdom
Brunel(1806-1859):Works[At University of Dundee][Modern summary]or
see
another
Summary Biography[At wlihe.ac.uk]Isambard Kingdom
Brunel(1806-1859):The Clifton Suspension Bridge[At wlihe.ac.uk][picture]James
Nasmyth:Autobiography, 1897, in chapter files, full text,
with
illustrations,[At
Bibliomania])The
Process
of
Industrialization(Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization,[At
this
Site]Spread of Railways in Europe[At this Site])New
Technologies(The Steeel Industry:Sir Henry Bessemer(1813-1898):Autobiography, 1905, in chapter files, full text,
with
illustrations,[At
Bibliomania]The Chemical Industry Harold Baron: The Chemical Industry on the Continent, 1909[At
this
Site]Steel Electricity
Efficiency,
Automation
and
the
Assembly
Line:Frederick W. Taylor:The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911[At
this
Site]Aviation:Orville
Wright(1871-1948):Telegram to Bishop Milton Wright announcing the first successful
powered
flight,
17
December,
1903[At
NARA]Confidences
and
Disasters:WEB
Titanic Documents[At NARA]Jay Henry Mowbray:The
Sinking
of
the
Titanic
1912[At
Gaslight])
New Science:Darwin,
Freud,
Einstein-General(SUMMARY:Late
19th
Century
Science
and
Culture)Geology(Archibald Geikie:Geographical Evolution, 1879[At this Site]Charles
Lyell:Principles of Geology III & IV[At this Site])Biology:Red
in
Tooth
and
Claw(Charles
Darwin(1809-1882):The Voyage of the Beagle, 1845[At Literature.Org][Full
Text]Charles
Darwin(1809-1882):On the Origins of Species, 1859[At Literature.Org][Full
Text]Charles
Darwin(1809-1882):On the Origins of Species, 1859, extracts[At
WSU]Charles
Darwin(1809-1882):On the Origins of Species, 1859, extracts[At
Hanover]Charles
Darwin(1809-1882):The
Descent
of
Man,
1871[At
Bristol][Full
Text]Charles
Darwin(1809-1882):The Descent of Man, 1871, excerpts[At this Site]Charles
Darwin(1809-1882):The Descent of Man, 1871, excerpts on Sexual Selection[At this Site]Thomas
H.
Huxley,(1825-95):The
Crayfish:An
Introduction
to
the
Study
of
Zoology,
1880,
full
text[At
Eldritch
Press]Maurice
Maeterlinck(1862-1949):The
Life
of
the
Bee[La
Vie
des
Abeilles],
translated
from
French
into
English
by
Alfred
Sutro,
full
text[At
Eldritch
Press]Reaction
to
Darwin:Samuel
Wilberforce:On Darwin's Origin of Species,
1860
A
negative
reaction.
J.
H.
Gladstone:Points of Supposed Collision Between the Scriptures and
Natural
Science,
1872[At
this
Site]A
lecture
given
at
the
behest
of
the
Christian
Evidence
Society,
in
support
of
Christianity
against
the
assault
of
the
New
Science
upon
Biblical
authority.
St.
George
Jackson
Mivart(1827-1900):On the Genesis of the Species, 1871 Mivart was
a
Catholic
convert
who
wrote
a
noted
reply
to
the
Darwinian
thesis,
which
he
did
not
dismiss
out
of
hand,
in
1871.
In
1876,
Pope
Pius
IX
conferred
on
him
the
degree
of
doctor
of
philosophy.
Social
Implications
of
Evolution:Herbert
Spencer(1820-1903):Progess:Its Law and Causes, 1857, excerpts[At
this
Site]Social
Darwinism
by
its
founder.
Note
the
date!
Herbert
Spencer(1820-1903):First Principles, 1862[At McMaster][Full Text]Walter
Bagehot:The Use of Conflict, 1872[At this Site]An application
of
evolutionary
thought
to
military
conflict.
Thomas
Henry
Huxley(1825-1895):The Method of Scientific Investigation, 1863[At
this
Site]Thomas
H.
Huxley(1825-95):Science and Culture, 1880[At this Site]Thomas
Henry
Huxley:The Struggle for Existence, 1888[At this Site]Thomas
Henry
Huxley(1825-1895):Prolegomena to Evolution and Ethics, 1894[At
Baylor]Thomas
Henry
Huxley(1825-1895):Evolution and Ethics, 1894[At Baylor]Andrew White:The Warfare of Science and Theology in Christendom
1898[At
Hanover]Karl
Pearson:National Life From the Standpoint of Science,
1900[At
this
Site]Charles
Peirce:The
Fixation
of
Belief[At
this
Site]William
Graham
Sumner(1840-1910):The Challenge of Facts, pub. 1914[At this Site]An
American
social
Darwinist
mixes
on
the
family
and
Socialism.
2ND Robert M. Young:The
Impact
of
Darwin
on
Conventional
Thought[At
Sheffield])Mathematics(WEB
Articles on the History of Mathematics[At St.
Andrews])Physics:The
End
of
the
Classical
Synthesis(WEB
Einstein Online
Splendid
collection
of
texts
by
and
about
Einstein,
with
links
to
all
over
the
net.WEB
Einstein Revealed[At PBS]WEB Einstein Page[At Erk]A great site for texts,
with
explanations
of
what
they
mean.
