The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch (33 page)

Epigraph
:
Coupland (1992).

electrolysis of seawater
:
Abdel-Aal et al. (2010).

aluminum
:
Johnson (1977), Kean (2010).

electrolysis and discovery of new elements
:
Gribbin (2002), Holmes (2008).

periodic table
:
Fara (2009), Kean (2010).

black powder as elixir for immortality
:
Winston (2010).

nitroglycerin and dynamite
:
Mokyr (1990).

applications of photography
:
Gribbin (2002), Osman (2011).

rudimentary photography
:
Sutton (1986), Ware (1997), Crump (2001), Ware (2002), Ware (2004).

industrial chemistry
:
Mokyr (1990).

demand for soda
:
Deighton (1907), Reilly (1951).

Leblanc process, early industrial pollution, Solvay processes
:
Deighton (1907), Reilly (1951), Mokyr (1990).

William Crookes quote
:
Standage (2010).

nitrogen gas is the least reactive diatomic substance
:
Schrock (2006).

Haber-Bosch process
:
Standage (2010), Kean (2010), Perkins (1977), Edgerton (2007a).

12: TIME AND PLACE

Adam Frank,
About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang
.

Eric Bruton,
The History of Clocks & Watches
.

Dava Sobel,
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
.

Epigraph
:
Denis Diderot as quoted by Goodman (1995).

constancy of sand time (hourglass) compared to water clock
:
Bruton (2000).

sundials
:
Oleson (2008).

Manhattan as a city-size Stonehenge
:
Astronomy Picture of the Day, July 12, 2006, http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060712.html.

mechanical clocks
:
Usher (1982), Bruton (2000), Gribbin (2002), Frank (2011).

60 seconds, 60 minutes, 24 hours
:
Crump (2001), Frank (2011).

“o’clock”
:
Mortimer (2008).

first appearance of Sirius
:
Schaefer (2000).

resurrect the Gregorian calendar
:
see Pappas (2011) for one proposal for reformatting the year into a different structure of months.

navigation before accurate clocks by sailing along line of latitude
:
Usher (1982).

solving the longitude problem
:
Sobel (1995).

spring-based clocks
:
Usher (1982), Bruton (2000).

22 chronometers aboard HMS
Beagle
:
Sobel (1995).

13: THE GREATEST INVENTION

Epigraph
:
Eliot (1943).

nothing inevitable about technological progress and history of China
:
Mokyr (1990).

Industrial Revolution in eighteenth-century Britain
:
Allen (2009).

metric system and why UK and USA did not adopt it
:
Crump (2001).

invention of barometer and thermometer
:
Crump (2001), Chang (2004).

the scientific revolution and how science is done
:
Shapin (1996), Kuhn (1996), Bowler and Morus (2005), Henry (2008), Ball (2012).

symbiosis between science and technology
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