Generations of practical and ingenious Maritimers have given the word great things. Since the mid-nineteenth century, scientists have fanned out into the world from colleges and universities that are among the oldest in North America. Great Maritime Achievers in Science and Technology brings together the achievements of more than 30 of these trail-blazing scientists and inventors, many of whom gained national and international prominence in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. Among those profiled in the book are Grace Annie Lockhart, the first woman in the British Empire to earn a university science degree; Charles Fenerty, who discovered how to make paper out of wood; Abraham Gesner, who invented kerosene and fathered the petroleum industry; and others whose practical, yet creative minds helped change the course of Canada’s scientific history.
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- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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Table of Contents
- George MacBeath 3
- CONTENTS 5
- FOREWORD 7
- Great Maritime Achievers in Science and Technology 7
- ABRAHAM GESNER 11
- Remarks on the Geol- ogy and Mineralogy of Nova Scotia. kerosene 12
- A Practical Treatise on Coal Petroleum and Other Dis- tilled Oils 13
- ROBERT FOULIS 15
- TITUS SMITH 19
- Wild Flowers of Nova Scotia Novascotian 20
- MOSES HENRY PERLEY 23
- Desperate 24
- ANDREW DOWNS 25
- BENJAMIN TIBBETS 29
- Reindeer 30
- Reindeer 31
- CHARLES FENERTY 33
- Acadian Recorder 34
- Acadian Recorder 35
- THOMAS HALL 37
- Pioneer 39
- FRANCIS PEABODY SHARP 41
- FREDERICK NEWTON GISBORNE 45
- SIMON NEWCOMB 49
- American Ephemeris and Nauti- cal Almanac Nautical Almanac 50
- Nautical Almanac Nautical Almanac 51
- JOHN WILLIAM DAWSON 53
- Quarterly Journal 53
- Times The Origin of Species Eosoön canadense Eosoön 54
- Acadian Geology Handbook of Canadian Zoology Handbook of Canadian Geology Transactions 55
- DAVID HONEYMAN 57
- Acadian Geology 57
- Giants and Pigmies Geological 58
- JAMES ROBB 59
- Agricultural Progress An Outline of the Course of Improvement in Agriculture . . . with Special Reference to New Brunswick 59
- The Agricultural Capabilities of New Brunswick 61
- WILLIAM BRYDONE JACK 63
- GEORGE FREDERIC MATTHEW 67
- Trans- actions of the Royal Society of Canada Paradoxides regina 68
- GEORGE MERCER DAWSON 71
- Descriptive Sketch of the Physical Geography and Geology of the Dominion of Canada 71
- LORING WOART BAILEY 75
- WILLIAM DILLER MATTHEW 79
- Paradoxides regina 79
- Climate and Evolution Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Bulletin Bulletin 80
- CHARLES FREDERICK HARTT 81
- The Descent of Man. The Geology and Physical Geography of Brazil. 81
- Bulletin 82
- WILLIAM FRANCIS GANONG 83
- Transactions 85
- Transactions 86
- HENRY G.C. KETCHUM 87
- GRACE ANNIE LOCKHART 91
- WILLIAM MacINTOSH 93
- Bulletin 93
- JOHN CLARENCE WEBSTER 95
- ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MABEL HUBBARD BELL J.A.D. McCURDY and FREDERICK CASEY BALDWIN 99
- Red Wing 100
- Silver Dart Journal of the Engineering Institute of Canada 101
- WALLACE RUPERT TURNBULL 105
- Aeronautical Journal 106
- GEORGINA FANE POPE 109
- MARGARET MACDONALD 113
- Relief. 113
- ROBIE TUFTS 115
- Birds of Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Birds of Prey Birds of Nova Scotia Halifax Chronicle Herald Birds and Their Ways. Asio otus tuftsi 117
- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 118
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 119
- INDEX 121
