Making your mark
Article Abstract:
Musings on the advances in knowledge that led to the discovery of DNA fingerprinting include those inventions by A.H.G. Fokker (fighter prop planes), Ben Holt (tractor), Rudolf Diesel (engine), Alfred Krupp (corporate paternalism), Otto Bismark (pensions) and Francis Galton (fingerprints).
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1996
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Connections: Turkish delights
Article Abstract:
Turkey is the country used as the starting point for various scientific, cultural and social upheavals, including the development of the socket bayonet and flintlock combination which revolutionized infantry warfare and the rise of physiognomy as a science.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1998
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French leave
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A discussion of geologists Will Smith, who became known as 'Strata' Smith, is presented.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2001
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