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Deborah Jean Warner
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Earth Sciences History. 33:333-345
The name attached to a scientific instrument may identify the scientist(s) who contributed most to its design or, as was the case with the first successful long-period seismographs, the scientist(s) who captured credit for this achievement. These not
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Deborah Jean Warner
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Technology and Culture. 55:1007-1009
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Deborah Jean Warner
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Ambix. 55:50-61
While working in the chemistry laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, Constantin Fahlberg oxidized the 'ortho-sulfamide of benzoic acid' and, by chance, found the result to be incredibly sweet. Several years later, now working on his own, he termed
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Deborah Jean Warner
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Annals of Science. 64:147-170
Summary Americans import large amounts of sugar, levy a stiff tariff on it, and base this tariff on the saccharine content of each sample, and thus the assessment of sugar quality for tax purposes was enormously important. It was also among the most
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Deborah Jean Warner
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Annals of Science. 59:363-389
Since military planners must know the size and shape of the earth if they hope to track earth-orbiting satellites and to target missiles on distant lands, geodesy was an important concern of the two superpowers during the Cold War. The most important
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Ronald E. Grim, David Woodward, Robert W. Karrow, George D. Glazer, Jan Mokre, Levon Avdoyan, Evelyn Edson, Thomas D. Goodrich, Hélène Richard, Michael D. Steven, Barbara B. McCorkle, Paul D. McDermott, James R. Akerman, Anthony Páez Mullan, Paula Rebert, Andrew S. Cook, Hugh Prince, Patricia Molen van Ee, Kathryn L. Engstrom, Deborah Jean Warner, J. H. Andrews
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Imago Mundi. 53:144-163
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Deborah Jean Warner
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History of Photography. 24:16-23
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Deborah Jean Warner
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Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. 30:393-415
La geodesie a apporte une large contribution a l'armee americaine lors de la guerre froide et a permis de mesurer les distances entre les continents grâce a de nombreuses techniques
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Deborah Jean Warner
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The British Journal for the History of Science. 23:83-93
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Deborah Jean Warner
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Imago Mundi. 66:131-132
Star maps and globes are wonderfully intriguing and devilishly difficult to decipher. When were they made, where and by whom? To what extent did they serve astronomical, astrological, pedagogical a...