Henri Bergson

Creative Evolution, 1907. Says Wiki: "Creative Evolution (L'Evolution créatrice) is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Its English translation appeared in 1911. The book provides an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by an élan vital, a "vital impetus" that can also be understood as humanity's natural creative impulse. The book was very popular in the early decades of the twentieth century, before the Neodarwinian synthesis was developed.

The book also develops concepts of time (offered in Bergson's earlier work) which significantly influenced modernist writers and thinkers such as Marcel Proust. For example, Bergson's term "duration" refers to a more individual, subjective experience of time, as opposed to mathematical, objectively measurable "clock time." In Creative Evolution, Bergson suggests that the experience of time as "duration" can best be understood through creative intuition, not through intellect.

Harvard philosopher William James intended to write the introduction to the English translation of the book, but died in 1910 prior to its completion."

The Magic of Science show

Link from Wisconsin Historical Society about traveling educator who goes to schools to talk about electricity.

Kids and medicine: Bibliographic notes

Reiser, Medicine and the Reign of Technology (1981)
Seltzer, Bodies and Machines (1992) (Literature-based)
Swabe, Animals, Disease, and Human Society: Human-Animal Relations and the Rise of Veterinary Science (1998)

Grangers and children

In Nature's Metropolis, pgs 358-360: Grangers and pro-farm writers would include articles in their publications re: the need to keep kids on the farm (and how to do it)

DuBois on industrial ed

From Kevin Gaines' essay on Pauline Hopkins, "Uplift Ideology as 'Civilizing Mission,'" in Pease and Kaplan, eds., Cultures of United States Imperialism, p 442:

"W.E.B. Dubois would revive the analogy in 1903 in challenging Washington's program of industrial education as the exclusive means of the 'uplifting and civilization of black men in America.' Du Bois denounced Washington's policy, indicative of a tendency 'born of slavery and quickened and renewed to life by the crazy imperialism of the day, to regard human beings as among the material resources of a land to be trained with an eye single to future dividends.'"

Note directs to The Souls of Black Folk, Signet edition, p 126.

Darkness and Dawn trilogy

by George England, 1914. Descrip from Amazon:

"The Vacant World, the first novel, begins when a secretary, Beatrice Kendrick, and her boss, a young engineer named Allan Stern, awaken on an upper floor of a ruined Manhattan skyscraper, thousands of years in the future when civilization has been destroyed. The pair has been in a state of suspended animation for fifteen hundred years. Changes in the earth's features as well as monstrously mutated "humans" make it clear they have little hope of survival. The pair organize their resources to face the savage alternatives about them and the closeness created by their mutual interdependency inevitably kindles romance between Allan and Beatrice.

In Book Two, Beyond the Great Oblivion, Allan and Beatrice begin to discover the nature of the catastrophe that has split the Earth open. Rebuilding an airplane, they find a "bottomless" chasm near Pittsburgh where a huge portion of the Earth has been torn away to become a second moon. Alan and Beatrice earn the loyalty of the People of this Abyss and lead them from the chasm to New York.

In Book Three, The Afterglow, Allan and Beatrice, with the People of the Abyss, prepare to recolonize the Earth's surface. But first, they must defeat the devolved, cannibalistic survivors who populate Earth's cities.

Analog calls Darkness and Dawn "a classic trilogy," while historian/critic Sam Moskowitz terms it "a masterpiece."

Steam-Man of the Prairies

in Bill Brown's essay in Cultures of United States Imperialism, he describes a scifi book from 1868 in which a disabled child constructs a steam-powered man to do all of the things he can't do: Ellis, Steam-Man of the Prairies.