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July 10 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2006). July 11 – David Challinor, American biologist, naturalist and scientific administrator at the Smithsonian Institution (died 2008). July 25 – Rosalind Franklin, English crystallographer (died 1958). July 30 – Marie Tharp, American geologist (died 2006).
In the early decades of its history, the United States was relatively isolated from Europe and also rather poor. At this stage, America's scientific infrastructure was still quite primitive compared to the long-established societies, institutes, and universities in Europe. Eight of America's founding fathers were scientists of some repute.
The cotton gin, invented by Eli Whitney, revolutionized slave-based agriculture in the Southern United States.. The technological and industrial history of the United States describes the emergence of the United States as one of the most technologically advanced nations in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The 1920s (pronounced "nineteen-twenties" often shortened to the "' 20s" or the "Twenties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1920, and ended on December 31, 1929. . Primarily known for the economic boom that occurred in the Western World following the end of World War I (1914–1918), the decade is frequently referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age" in America and Western ...
Both studies attracted significant attention, since they hinted at the possibility for a runaway positive feedback within the global climate system. [44] In the early 1970s, evidence that aerosols were increasing worldwide encouraged Reid Bryson and some others to warn of the possibility of severe cooling. Meanwhile, the new evidence that the ...
Frederick W. Taylor and the Rise of Scientific Management (1980). Nelson, Daniel. Managers and Workers: Origins of the Twentieth-Century Factory System in the United States, 1880–1920 2nd ed. (1995). Noble, David F. America by Design (1979). Nolan, Mary. Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany (1995) Nolan, Mary.
1920s: Finance. America's wealth more than doubled in the years between 1920 and '29. Most of this wealth funneled into finance and industry, but enough trickled down to low-level employees to let ...
Scientific organizations established in the 1920s (10 C) P. ... Pages in category "1920s in science" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.