Dale DeBakcsyJul 87 minThe Ice Woman: Mary Engle Pennington’s Revolutionary World of Refrigeration.In the early 20th century, buying and consuming food of any sort in an urban center was a fraught proposition, particularly in the days...
Dale DeBakcsyJul 75 minMaintaining The Spark: Frances Wick and the Physics of Triboluminescence.It almost ranks as a milepost of youth - you get together with a friend, turn the lights out and thrown a blanket over your heads so that...
Dale DeBakcsyJun 116 minProbing the Ultraviolet: The Spectroscopic Marvels of Emma Perry CarrIn its externals the life of Emma Carr (1880-1972) bears many similarities to that of fellow physicist Margaret Maltby (1860-1944). Both...
Dale DeBakcsyJun 1010 minSex After Sixty: The Geriatric Gynecology of Anna Kleegman Daniels.Sex after menopause. Drug addiction. Abortion. In the early to mid-twentieth century, to be seen as casting an understanding eye on any...
Dale DeBakcsyMay 297 minAgainst the Current: Margaret Eliza Maltby and the Fight for Women in Physics.An American woman hoping to make her way in science in the 19th century carried with her the knowledge that, as soon as she had a child...