William Crookes (1832–1919) and the Commercialization of Science (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction; Preliminary: a chemist at work; A tailor's son; Photographic chemist. The making of an editor; Earning a living; Thallium; Carbolic and cattle plague; Selling science, 1865-75; Spiritualism; Mysterious forces: investigating Mr Home; Chemistry is strictly a science of precision; The investigation of Florence Cook, 1872-74; Scandal: the investigations of Annie Eva Fay and Rosina Showers; The radiometer and its lessons: William Carpenter versus William Crookes; Dark spaces and the 4th state of matter; Ubi crux ibi lux. The business of electricity; The commercialization of public health: water; The commercialization of public health: adulteration, sewage and hygiene; Radiant spectroscopy. The rare earths crusade; Esoteric chemistry in the nineties; Inert gases and transmutations; The wheat problem; Radioactivity; Welsh gold and African diamonds; The grand old man of chemical physics, 1907-1913; The final years, 1913-1919; The afterlife; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.