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Summary: The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. It was sulfa, the first synthetic antibiotic. Science writer Hager chronicles the history of the drug that shaped modern medicine. Sulfa saved millions of lives--among them those of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.--but even more,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.2 HAGHager, Thomas
Summary: During the roaring twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country's poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's "Detroit of the South" would be ten times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.980 HAGHager, Thomas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995