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Chemistry World January 8, 2016 Derry Jones |
Atomic -- the first war of physics and the secret history of the atom bomb, 1939--49 Jim Baggott, aims to describe the competitive actions of several countries in what became a race involving the UK, Canada, the US, Germany, the USSR, (and even Norway up to June 1940). |
Information Today January 5, 2016 |
British Library Makes Digitization Progress on Historic Maps The British Library is a quarter of the way through its project to re-catalog, digitize, and conserve King George III's collection of 50,000 maps dating from around 1500 to 1824. |
Information Today December 17, 2015 |
GPO Signs Up to Help Preserve Historical Government Technical Reports The U.S. Government Publishing Office became the first federal agency to join the Technical Report Archive & Image Library. The organizations will work together to advance free public access to government information |
Information Today December 15, 2015 |
Gale Debuts 19th-Century Crime and Punishment Collection Gale launched Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920, its new primary-source archive of more than 2 million pages of material on 19th-century history, literature, law, and criminal justice. |
Chemistry World December 8, 2015 Geri Kitley |
Science in Wonderland -- the scientific fairy tales of Victorian Britain Melanie Keene brings together texts from Victorian times that have fictionalized science in some way to make it more accessible to a younger audience. |
Chemistry World December 7, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Dress dye analysis points to fast-moving fashion in 19th century A chemical analysis of the purple threads from silk dresses dating back to the 19th century has shed new light on the early trade and manufacture of synthetic dyes. |
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