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| From the Periodic Table to Production: The ...
by Thomas Midgley $18.96 On 2 Nov 1944, Thomas Midgley died whose immense contributions to modern chemistry included leaded gasoline and freon, now kno... | The Origin of Continents and Oceans
by Alfred Wegener On 1 Nov 1880, Alfred Wegener was born, who gave the first well-developed hypothesis of continental drift, as outlined in this... | The Carving of Mount Rushmore
by Rex Alan Smith $19.13 On 31 Oct 1941, work at Mount Rushmore finally ended on the four monumental heads of U.S. presidents. |
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| Thomas Bouch: The Builder of the Tay Bridge
by John Rapley $30.36 On 30 Oct 1880, Sir Thomas Bouch died, builder of the ill-fated Tay Railway Bridge. Its historic catastrophic collapse in 1879... | Oxygen
by Carl Djerassi $27.50 On 29 Oct 1923, Carl Djerassi was born, inventor of an oral contraceptive and playwright. In this play, he considers who disco... | Splendid Solution
by Jeffrey Kluger $6.00 BARGAIN PRICE! On 28 Oct 1914, Jonas Salk was born, who developed the first safe and effective polio vaccine, a medical triump... |
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| Singer and the Sewing Machine: A Capitalist...
by Ruth Brandon On 27 Oct 1811, Isaac Singer was born, who improved the sewing machine, and invented a marketing system that made it a househo... | Pennsylvania Disasters: True Stories of Tra...
by Karen Ivory $11.86 On 26 Oct 1948, a toxic smog of industrial pollution killed 20 people at Donora, Pa. This is one of 22 Pennsylvania disasters ... | An Ocean of Air: Why the Wind Blows and Oth...
by Gabrielle Walker $17.15 On 25 Oct 1647, Evangelista Torricelli died, the Italian physicist whose mercury tube barometer experiment indicated we live u... |
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