Every-day Science: Volume VI. The Conquest of Nature (Illustrated)

In the earlier volumes we have been concerned with the growth of knowledge. For the most part the scientific delvers whose efforts have held our attention have been tacitly unmindful, or even explicitly contemptuous, of the influence upon practical life of the phenomena to the investigation of which they have devoted their lives. They were and are obviously seekers of truth for the mere love of truth.
But the phenomena of nature are not dissociated in fact, however much we may attempt to loc...