Science Non-Fiction and Fiction Short Story
Citations/References
All Science Fiction stories were taken from www.sffworld.com/authors/fiction.html
and www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/sci-fiindex.html
Authors of each story are included before or after each story title.
All Short Stories About Chemistry were taken from:
www.todayinsci.com/stories/storyIndex.htm
107 Stories About Chemistry by L. Vlasov D. Trifonov
Translated from the Russian by David Sobolev (1970)
Index
The Inhabitants of the Big House
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A Bird's-Eye View of the Periodic System
How the Astronomers Sent the Chemists on a Wild Goose Chase
A Two-Faced Element
The First and the Most Surprising
How Many Hydrogens Are There on Earth?
Chemistry = Physics + Mathematics!
Some More Mathematics
How Chemists Came Across the Unexpected
A Solution Which Brought No Consolation
The Search for a "Crazy" Idea, or How the Inert Gases Stopped Being Inert
Another Inconsistency? What Is to Be Done About It?
The "Omnivorous"
Hennig Brand's "Philosopher's Stone"
The Odour of Freshness, or the Transition of Quantity into Quality Exemplified
So Simple and Yet So Wonderful
"Ice, Not Yet Firm, on the Cold Little River . . ."
How Many Waters Are There on Earth?
"Water of Life", Life-Giving, Omnipresent Water
The Icicle's Secrets
A Bit of Linguistics, or Two Very Different Things
Why "Two Very Different Things"?
Two More "Whys"
Inconsistencies
Originality in Architecture
Fourteen Twins
The World of Metals and Its Paradoxes
Liquid Metals and a Gaseous (?) Metal
Unusual Compounds
The First Electronic Computer in Chemistry
A Hitch in the "Electronic Computer"
How to Change One Element into Another
Mortality and Immortality in the World of Elements
One, Two, Three, Many. . .
Has Nature Been Just?
On the Track of False Suns
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The Fate of One of the Hundred and Four
Where is Thy Place, Uranium?
Little Stories from Archeology
Uranium and Its Professions
An Unfinished Building?
A Hymn to Modern Alchemists
On the Brink of the Unknown
Element Register
Snake with its tail in its mouth
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The Spirit of Chemical Science
Lightning and Tortoises
The Magic Barrier
Snake with Its Tail in Its Mouth
How to Make a Tortoise Go Like "Lightning" and Vice Versa
Chain Reactions
How Chemistry Made Friends with Electricity
Enemy Number One . . .
. . . And How to Fight It
A Luminous Jet
The Sun as a Chemist
Two Kinds of Chemical Fetters
Chemistry and Radiation
The Longest Reaction
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All Short Stories of Science and Invention were taken from:
www.todayinsci.com/stories2/storyIndex.htm
A Collection of Radio Talks by Charles F. Kettering
Introduction to Science and Invention
1. The Intangible in Human Progress
2. The Birth of an Idea
3. Ideas Are More Permanent Than People
4. Research is a State of Mind
5. Experiment vs. Theory
6. Hand and Mind
Science and Invention in Transportation
7. The Wright Way
8. A Veterinarian "Shoes" a Horseless Carriage
9. Energy From the Sun
10. Time and Distance
11. Inventor - Business Man
12. Patience and Practice
13. Orukter Amphibolos
14. The Turning Wheel
15. Harnessing the Iron Horse
Science and Invention in War
16. The Silent Service
17. There is Always a Frontier
18. Ancient Battleground
19. The Four Horsemen
20. Lady of the Lamp
21. An Idea Explodes
22. Unravelling the Atom
23. R-A-D-A-R
Men of Science and Invention
24. A Man Who Groped in the Dark
25. World-Wide Opera House
26. The Man Who Kept His Eye on the Ball
27. Christmas Lecturer
28. Patience
29. A Word To The Wise
30. The Bookkeeper Had a Hobby
31. Dots and Dashes
32. The Crown Jewels
33. Rôle d'Honneur
34. Ghost Pictures
35. "Poor Richard"
36. Music and Stars
37. Thomas Midgeley, Jr.
38. The Man of a Thousand Ideas
39. Scientific Giant
Men, Methods and Progress
40. Measuring Time
41. Time and the Tree
42. Muskets and Machines
43. "If at First You Do Succeed - "
44. Twice a Patriot
45. The News Gets Around
46. George Washington - Patriot, Statesman and Scientist
47. American Crossroads
48. Pilgrim's Progress
49. Scouts of the World - Brothers Together
50. Learning From Nature
51. Catching Up With Nature
52. From Cocoon To Test Tube
53. Underwater Powerhouse
Science and Medicine
54. Mosquitos and Steam Shovels
55. Twice in a Lifetime
56. Purple Dye, Sun Glasses and Malaria
57. Flying Death
58. Dr. Fleming Opens the Door
59. D.D.T.