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Uncle Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood
- Title
- Uncle Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood / Oliver Sacks.
- Author
- Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 02-18325 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- viii, 337 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Uncle Tungsten -- "37" -- Exile -- "An ideal metal" -- Light for the masses -- The land of Stabnite -- Chemical recreations -- Stinks and bangs -- Housecalls -- A chemical language -- Humphry Davy: a poet-chemist -- Images -- Mr. Dalton's round bits of wood -- Lines of force -- Home life -- Mendeleev's garden -- A pocket spectroscope -- Cold fire -- Ma -- Penetrating rays -- Madame Curie's element -- Cannery row -- The world set free -- Brilliant light -- The end of the affair.
- Call Number
- JFD 02-18325
- ISBN
- 0375404481
- LCCN
- 2001033738
- OCLC
- 46937635
- Author
- Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
- Title
- Uncle Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood / Oliver Sacks.
- Imprint
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
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- Research Call Number
- JFD 02-18325