Is science to save or create a Frankenstein
JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN discusses Marconi's radio breakthrough and the double edged power of science. He weighs whether scientific progress will redeem humanity or spawn a monster, citing Galsworthy, Gregory, Bragg and Gibbs on the risks of warfare, ethics, and control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marconi
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
North Seas
John Galsworthy
Aparn
Richard Gregory
Ralph S. Melee
Columbia University
Galsworthy
William H. Bragg
Science and Its double edged power in modern life
A broad critique of science’s role in society contrasts its achievements with its threats. Predictions of future weapons, accidents, and industry’s moral costs are weighed against calls to preserve freedom in research and to use science for human and spiritual advancement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Philip Gibbs
Los Angeles
Ray O. Wyland
New York
Boy Scout National Educational
Hugh L. McMenamin
Michelangelo
Mozart
Caesar Franck
Beethoven
Ford
Rockefeller
Athens
Pittsburgh
Detroit
Charles Henry Dickinson
Apples Breathe In Storage In Winter
Pennsylvania department of agriculture explains apples breathe like sleeping babies and require proper winter storage. Key points are temperature near freezing, adequate ventilation, and balanced air moisture to prevent drying or rot during months in storage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
Department
Bureau of Plant Industry
Adjustable see-saw designed by Eastern man
A versatile see-saw for children of all ages adapts to any height. The inventor, an Eastern man, promotes its adjustable design for safety and accessibility in play.
Unusual Baseball Uniforms Of The Early Chicagos
The Chicagos of the early eighties were known for startling attire. White stockings showed under variable outfits from short Dutch pants to tight black tights. One season even featured dress shirts and coat-like attire worn on the field.
Captains of Adventure Retro Narrative of Schultz and Blackfeet
A reminiscence lauds F. W. Schultz and his Blackfeet companions, detailing trading life, siege of cultures, and the late buffalo era. It describes Wolverine, Bull’s Head, and tribal trials from horse thefts to the Winter of Death, ending with Schultz’s grim witness to vanishing plains and dwindling tribes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Schultz
Washington
Schultz
New England
Missouri
Fort Benton
Wolverine
Piks-ah’-ki
Bull’s Head
Gros Ventre
Three Bears
Gros Ventres
Big Lake
Bull
Blackfeet
Canada
Hudson's Bay Company
Canadian Wolfers
Northwest Mounted Police
Hudson's Bay
Kansas
Red Bird's Tall
Lodge Pole
Wolf Head
New York
Fisher Cap
Father Prando
First Matches and a Bristling Biscuit Tale
The article recalls the early sulfur matches from 1833 and the 1838 shift to safer Swedish matches, noting Japan’s competition. It then shares a humorous domestic anecdote about a bride’s breakfast biscuits, claiming she used oleo and altered ingredients to mimic “mother’s” pre pure food law recipes, highlighting old-fashioned cooking tricks.
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Earth
Loft
John Dickinson Sherman
J. Arthur Thomson
Oliver Lodge
Richard
Prof
A. SE. Law
James L. Walsh
New York Ordnance District
Ordnance Department
Charles Stanley Gibson
Ministry of Munitions
Charles Golightly
Phillips Thomas
Westinghouse
Maude Adams
General Electric Company
Eastman Kodak Company
Duke of Sutherland
Air For Great Britain
United States
Sherman M. Fairchild
Photographic
United States Army
Francis C. Wood
Crocker Institute of Cancer Research
C. T. Alrey
Westinghouse Lamp Company
Elizabeth Mackay
Palm Beach
Florida
Karl Weaver
Housewives of America
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
John D. Sherman
Department of Applied Education
Captains OF Adventure
BISON
A. D
Sweden
Japan
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