General Science
by Bertha May Clark
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About this eBook
- Author
- Clark, Bertha May, 1880-
- Credits
- Produced by John Hagerson, Kevin Handy, Sankar Viswanathan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Q: Science
- Subject
- Science
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 16593
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16593
- Release Date
- August 25, 2005
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.GENERAL SCIENCE — BY
- 2.BERTHA M. CLARK, PH.D. — HEAD OF THE SCIENCE DEPARTMENT WILLIAM PENN HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, PHILADELPHIA — — NEW YORK - CINCINNATI - CHICAGO AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY — 1912 — PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.GENERAL SCIENCE
- 5.CHAPTER I — HEAT
- 6.CHAPTER II — TEMPERATURE AND HEAT
- 7.CHAPTER III — OTHER FACTS ABOUT HEAT
- 8.CHAPTER IV — BURNING OR OXIDATION
- 9.CHAPTER V — FOOD
- 10.CHAPTER VI — WATER
- 11.CHAPTER VII — AIR
- 12.CHAPTER VIII — GENERAL PROPERTIES OF GASES
- 13.CHAPTER IX — INVISIBLE OBJECTS
- 14.CHAPTER X — LIGHT
- 15.CHAPTER XI — REFRACTION
- 16.CHAPTER XII — PHOTOGRAPHY
- 17.CHAPTER XIII — COLOR
- 18.CHAPTER XIV — HEAT AND LIGHT AS COMPANIONS
- 19.CHAPTER XV — ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING
- 20.CHAPTER XVI — MAN'S WAY OF HELPING HIMSELF
- 21.CHAPTER XVII — THE POWER BEHIND THE ENGINE
- 22.CHAPTER XVIII — PUMPS AND THEIR VALUE TO MAN
- 23.CHAPTER XIX — THE WATER PROBLEM OF A LARGE CITY
- 24.CHAPTER XX — MAN'S CONQUEST OF SUBSTANCES
- 25.CHAPTER XXI — FERMENTATION
- 26.CHAPTER XXII — BLEACHING
- 27.CHAPTER XXIII — DYEING
- 28.CHAPTER XXIV — CHEMICALS AS DISINFECTANTS AND PRESERVATIVES
- 29.CHAPTER XXV — DRUGS AND PATENT MEDICINES
- 30.CHAPTER XXVI — NITROGEN AND ITS RELATION TO PLANTS
- 31.CHAPTER XXVII — SOUND
- 32.CHAPTER XXVIII — MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
- 33.CHAPTER XXIX — SPEAKING AND HEARING
- 34.CHAPTER XXX — ELECTRICITY
- 35.CHAPTER XXXI — SOME USES OF ELECTRICITY
- 36.CHAPTER XXXII — MODERN ELECTRICAL INVENTIONS
- 37.CHAPTER XXXIII — MAGNETS AND CURRENTS
- 38.CHAPTER XXXIV — HOW ELECTRICITY MAY BE MEASURED
- 39.CHAPTER XXXV — HOW ELECTRICITY IS OBTAINED ON A LARGE SCALE
- 40.Untitled
- 41.INDEX
- 42.PLANT LIFE AND PLANT USES — By JOHN GAYLORD COULTER, Ph. D. — $1.20 — AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
- 43.A NEW ASTRONOMY, $1.30
- 44.MATHEMATICAL GEOGRAPHY, $1.00 — AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
- 45.ELEMENTS OF GEOLOGY — $1.40 — AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
- 46.ESSENTIALS OF BIOLOGY — $1.25
- 47.SHARPE'S LABORATORY MANUAL IN BIOLOGY — $0.75 — AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
- 48.ESSENTIALS OF PHYSICS — $1.25 — AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
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