1924. A Pulitzer Prize winning book, Pupin's main objective in this narrative was to describe the rise of idealism in American science and particularly in physical sciences and the related industries. He was a witness to this gradual development and everything he describes was an attempt to qualify as a witness whose testimony has competence and weight.
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A poor Serbian village boy clashes with school authorities over his ethnic identity, accidentally ends up in late 19th century New York, struggles as an immigrant farm-hand, achieves a well-earned American education/citizenship and positions of influence and power with captains of industry by his well known scientific discoveries: the radio tuner and long distance telephone wire communication.This book is remarkable for its depth of appreciation for American cultural values by a foreigner who deserves his American citizenship more than most Americans! Highly recommended to all immigrant Americans who question the worth of American values and to Americans who seem to have forgotten. Also it is fascinating for students of physics who are interested in turn-of-the-century electromagnetic science and for those who seek a glimpse of Columbia University in 1880s.
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new electrical theory, yellow sheepskin coat, military frontiersmen, higher scientific research, multicolored bags, electrical motion, higher endeavor, electrical tuning, moving electricity, cracker factory, prune pie, busy fires, radio art, electrical science, electrical oscillator, reacting force, mathematical tripos, immigrant ship Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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new electrical theory, yellow sheepskin coat, military frontiersmen, higher scientific research, multicolored bags, electrical motion, higher endeavor, electrical tuning, moving electricity, cracker factory, prune pie, busy fires, radio art, electrical science, electrical oscillator, reacting force, mathematical tripos, immigrant ship Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Columbia College, National Research Council, Cortlandt Street, Castle Garden, Johns Hopkins, Cooper Union, Joseph Henry, National Academy of Sciences, President Barnard, Civil War, Trinity College, Benjamin Franklin, Columbia University, Nassau Hall, Prince Marko, Baba Batikin, Engineering Foundation, New England, Physical Institute, President Wilson, Andrew White, Declaration of Independence, Delaware City New!
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- Experimental Researches in Electricity (3 Volumes) by Michael Faraday on 5 pages
- Matter and Motion (Great Minds Series) by James Clerk Maxwell on page 179, page 185, and page 193
- Theory of Heat (Dover Books on Physics) by Physics on page 185, and page 193
- Faraday As A Discoverer by John Tyndall on page 207
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on page 100
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- Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities (Cultural Studies of the United States) by Laura Browder on page 153, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- An Institute for an Empire: The Psysikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, 1871-1918 by David Cahan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas by Norbert Wiener on page 72, and page 76
- Bullets and Bacilli: The Spanish-American War and Military Medicine by Vincent J. Cirillo in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Infinite in All Directions: Gifford Lectures Given at Aberdeen, Scotland April--November 1985 by Freeman J. Dyson on page 138, and Back Matter
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