The 1930s Science and Technology: For More Information

BOOKS

Asimov, Isaac. How Did We Find Out About Atoms? New York: Avon Books, 1982.

Asimov, Isaac. How Did We Find Out About Vitamins? New York: Walker, 1974.

Cohen, Daniel. The Last Hundred Years, Household Technology. New York: M. Evans, 1982.

Corn, Joseph J. The Winged Gospel: America's Romance with Aviation, 1900–1950. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Dick, Harold, and Douglas Robinson. The Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985.

Dunar, Andrew J., and Dennis McBride. Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2001.

Evernden, Margery. The Experimenters: Twelve Great Chemists. Greensboro, NC: Avisson Press, 2001.

Franck, Irene M., and David M. Brownstone. Scientists and Technologists. New York: Facts on File Publications, 1988.

Goddard, Stephen B. Getting There: The Epic Struggle Between Road and Rail in the American Century. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

Kevles, Daniel J. The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America. New York: Knopf, 1978.

McGowen, Tom. Chemistry: The Birth of a Science. New York: F. Watts, 1989.

McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino. TV's Forgotten Hero: The Story of Philo Farnsworth. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1996.

Parker, Steve. 1920–40: Atoms to Automation. Milwaukee, WI: Gareth Stevens Pub., 2001.

Richter, C. F. Elementary Seismology. San Francisco: Freeman, 1958.

Schafer, Mike. Streamliner Memories. Osceola, WI: MBI Pub., 1999.

Snedden, Robert. The History of Genetics. New York: Thomson Learning, 1995.

Spangenburg, Ray, and Diane K. Moser. The Story of America's Bridges. New York: Facts on File, 1991.

Stern, Ellen, and Emily Gwathmey. Once Upon a Telephone: An Illustrated Social History. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994.

Stevens, J. E. Hoover Dam: An American Adventure. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.

Stille, Darlene R. Extraordinary Women Scientists. Chicago: Children's Press, 1995.

Stwertka, Albert, and Eve Stwertka. Physics: From Newton to the Big Bang. New York: F. Watts, 1986.

Walters, Brian. The Illustrated History of Air Travel. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1979.

Yount, Lisa. Genetics and Genetic Engineering. New York: Facts on File, 1997.

PERIODICALS

Hugh, F. D. "The Scientific American Digest." Scientific American, 144 (May 1931): p. 350.

Landman, J. H. "Race Betterment by Human Sterilization." Scientific American, 150 (June 1934): pp. 292–295.

WEB SITES

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The Atomic Century. http://www.dpi.anl.gov/dpi2/timelines/1930s.htm (accessed July 23, 2002)

Earthquake Hazards Program: Science of Seismology. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/4kids//science.html (accessed July 23, 2002).