Robert P. Multhauf

Neptune's Gift

A History of Common Salt

Abstract: The scientific, historic, and socioeconomic aspects of salt are exhaustively explored for lay readers, historians, and scientists. The topic...

Neptunes Gift

A History of Common Salt

Common salt is a substance seemingly too ordinary to think about -- yet it is the oldest of our raw materials and the basis of some of our newest inve...

The Origins of Chemistry

"The Origins of Chemistry" integrates the histories of Greek, Arabic, and Latin alchemical traditions with philosophy, technology, and the genesis of ...

Mine Pumping in Agricola's Time and Later

This book is the text of a paper about the history of mining machinery and, in particular, mine pumps. The Agricola referred to is Georgius Agricola a...

The History of Chemical Technology

An Annotated Bibliography

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The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments

"The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments" by Robert P. Multhauf. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of...

Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century

Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Papers 34-44 On Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, 1966

"Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century" by Victor F. Lenzen, Robert P. Multhauf. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide r...

The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments

The development of self-registering meteorological instruments began very shortly after that of scientific meteorological observation itself. Yet it w...

A Brief History of Geomagnetism and a Catalog of the Collections of the National Museum of American History

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Mine Pumping in Agricola's Time and Later

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Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology

Papers 1-11 on Science and Technology

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Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century

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A Catalogue of Instruments and Models in the Possession of the American Philosophical Society

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