Science and Industry in the Nineteenth Century

NO 1: SCIENCE & INDUSTRY: J D BERNAL

CONTENTS

PREFACE page v

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY IN THE

NINETEENTH CENTURY

I. INTRODUCTION 3

II. HEAT AND ENERGY 39

III. FERMENTS AND MICROBES 70

IV. THE AGE OF STEEL 93

V. ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER 113

VI. CONCLUSIONS 134

MOLECULAR ASYMMETRY

VII. MOLECULAR ASYMMETRY

INDEX 118

CHART 220

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Antecedents and consequences of Pasteur’s

discovery of molecular asymmetry