Ash Dieback disease,Chalara, was first seen inthe UK in early 2012 on trees imported from Europe. A total ban on importing new trees came into force later that year but, by then, the disease had begun to spread. A classic case of ‘too little, too late’ forChalarahad been known on...
Book Review: Wage-Earning Women; Rising Women: Wage-Earning Women: Industrial Work and Family Life in the United States, 1900-1930, by Leslie Woodcock Tentler. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917, by Meredith ...
This paper is a reflexion on an assumption that has run through studies of industrial technology ever since the First World War. The assumption, broadly stated, is that in the age of science-based industry a strong and preferably expensive commitment to
In 1964, Dubuque, playing the long game, sent an actual old lady,** Mary Hayford, to New York to counter the hayseed image. “We have three fine colleges and everyone is studying for their master’s and Ph.D., so we’re very culturally minded,” she told theNew York Times.Hayford ...
Judy GilesPalgrave Macmillan UKGiles, Judy. 1995. Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900-1950. London: Macmillan Press.Giles Judy.Women,Identity and Private Life in Britain,1900-50.. 1995Giles Judy.Women,Identity and Private Life in Britain,1900-50. . 1995...
Her principal publication was The Cathedral Builders (1899 and 1900), an important examination of the whole field of Romanesque architecture in relation to the Comacine masons. Her biographer for the DNB observed that: though necessarily based on Merzario’s I Maestri Comacini, the book shows muc...
INTRODUCTION A symposium to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Hans Krebs was held in St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford, UK, during September 13–15, 2000. It was organized by Marion Stubbs, a long-time associate of Krebs, and Geoff Gibbons, the head of the Metabolic Re...
a doctor from the USA, introduced the idea in 1953 that aspirin had the po-tential to reduce the risk of heart attacks, because it helped the blood circulate better.The report was ignored.However, in 1971, Smith and Willis from the UK proved that aspirin could have that e...
Back in the 1900s, some "stop" signs were yellow because it was too hard to see a red sign in a poorly lit area. Finally, highly reflective materials(高反射材料) were developed and red "stop" signs were born. Since yellow can be seen well at all times of the day, scho...
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