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| From Lectern to Laboratory: How Science and Technology Changed the Face of America's Colleges.
Gyroscope Books, 2019.
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A lengthy treatise tracing the history of science and technology in the emerging college curricula of the post-colonial and antebellum eras. Using the educational experiences of the Director of the Harvard Observatory, From Lectern to Laboratory explores the growing need for applied scientists, especially after the completion of the Erie Canal, and the difficulties they faced trying to get an applied science curricula into established liberal arts colleges. Well researched with an extensive bibliography.
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