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- Title
Science Comes to Manitoba.
- Authors
Duckworth, Harry W.; Goldsborough, L. Gordon
- Abstract
During the nineteenth century, science was transformed from a hobby for leisured gentlemen to an essential influence on the lives of most people in the western world. The ability of science to produce terrible armaments — irresistible ordnance, poisonous gas, and unimaginable bombs — would not be revealed until the wars of the next century. The demands for science education, in the second half of the nineteenth century, came from several quarters. Each group was well organized and thoroughly capable of taking care of itself, and colleges of engineering, agriculture, and medicine were the solution they favoured, taking what they wished from science and hiring scientists to teach it.
- Subjects
SCIENCE; WESTERN countries; ORDNANCE; WAR; EDUCATION; AGRICULTURE
- Publication
Manitoba History, 2004, Issue 47, p2
- ISSN
0226-5044
- Publication type
Article