The Making of America, Volume 7Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins Making of America Company, 1906 - Inventors, American |
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Fifty Years of American Science | 1 |
The Debt of the World to Pure Science | 24 |
Scientific Work of the Government | 40 |
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