Word: kaempffert
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Outline of Art* he has set out rather definitely to follow Bacon's mindsteps. The latest addition to this type of library is A Popular History of American Invention published in two volumes by Charles Scribner's Sons and sold for $10. The editor is Waldemar Kaempffert, formerly of the Scientific American, now of Popular Science Monthly. A whole series of scientific writers contribute a whole series of articles, readable and comprehensive, profusely illustrated under five major headings comprising groups of special histories: 1) TRANSPORTATION : railroads, waterpower, electric cars, automobiles airplanes; 2) COMMUNICATION: printing, typewriting, telegraphy, telephony, radio...
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