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Mastering Iron
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

Mastering Iron

Veins of iron run deep in the history of America. Iron making began almost as soon as European settlement, with the establishment of the first ironworks in colonial Massachusetts. Yet it was Great Britain that became the Atlantic world’s dominant low-cost, high-volume producer of iron, a position it retained throughout the nineteenth century. It was not until after the Civil War that American iron producers began to match the scale and efficiency of the British iron industry. In Mastering Iron, Anne Kelly Knowles argues that the prolonged development of the US iron industry was largely due to geographical problems the British did not face. Pairing exhaustive manuscript research with analys...

Laws and Regulations of the American Philosophical Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 58

Laws and Regulations of the American Philosophical Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1886
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Annual Report - National Academy of Sciences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 116

Annual Report - National Academy of Sciences

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1865
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Vols. for include reports for the National Research Council; 1965/66- include reports for the National Academy of Engineering; 1971/72- include reports for the Institute of Medicine.

Annual of the National Academy of Sciences for 1863/64-1866
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 124

Annual of the National Academy of Sciences for 1863/64-1866

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1865
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 548
Minutes - United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 548

Minutes - United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1842
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Vol. for 1958 includes also the Minutes of the final General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America and the minutes of the final General Assembly of the Presbyteruan Church in the U.S.A.

Smithsonian Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 409

Smithsonian Stories

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Why is the Smithsonian more than the "Nation's Attic?" Or more than a museum complex? As Wilton S. Dillon shows, the Smithsonian came to be the institution we know today under the twenty-year leadership of "Sun King" S. Dillon Ripley.Ripley aspired to reinvent the Smithsonian as a great university with museums. Although little understood by the public at large, it began as a basic research center. The Smithsonian remains a key contributor to the world of higher learning and functions diplomatically as the ministry of culture for the United States. Dillon provides backstage insights into Ripley's quest for the wholeness of knowledge. He describes how he inspired its role as a "theater of idea...

Catalogue of the Alumni of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 126
Catalogue of the Alumni of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 78

Catalogue of the Alumni of the University of Pennsylvania

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.