Science

Lasers

by Hal Hellman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Among great technologic developments of the twentieth century has to be that of laser light with its myriad of applications in industry, com…

Art and Science of Time Crystal

by Wyken Seagrave Read by Wyken Seagrave 4.3
Wyken Seagrave talks about the pleasures and pains of inventing, developing, writing and podcasting of Time Crystal, the greatest adventure …

A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

by Andrew Dickson White Read by John Greenman 4.8
"In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference m…

Botany, The Story of Plant Life

by Julia Mcnair Wright Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Botany, The Story of Plant Life, is a charming book explaining plant life. The author chose the format of a chapter for each month to discus…

The Anatomy of Melancholy

by Robert Burton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burto…

Thunder and Lightning

by Camille Flammarion Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
It would be an interesting thing to make a careful study once a year, towards the end of the summer, of the habits and customs of thunder an…

Scientific American Supplement

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, havinge launched its first publication in …

Twentieth Century Inventions

by George Sutherland Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This work from 1901 predicts what technological developments will manifest in the twentieth century. The author, a technical journalist, pre…

Titan Of Chasms

by Charles F. Lummis Read by David Wales 4.5
This is a 1906 collection of three essays by men famously associated with The Grand Canyon: Charles A. Higgins, John Wesley Powell, and Cha…

Civilization and Climate

by Ellsworth Huntington Read by Leon Harvey 4.1
This book presents the science of geography one step further than just the physical features of the earth's surface. The relationship betwee…

The Peaceful Atom

by Bernice Kohn Hunt Read by Elsie Selwyn 4.3
In this children's science book from the early 1960s, the concept of atoms and the science behind them is introduced. The book recounts the …

The San Francisco Calamity

by Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The first half of this book describes the devastating earthquake that hit San Francisco in 1906, and the subsequent destruction caused by fi…

Madam How and Lady Why

by Charles Kingsley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.1
Did you ever wish you knew how to explain natural phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanoes to your children? Search no more, this book ha…

Lecture on Artificial Flight

by William G. Krueger Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Lecture on artificial flight given on request of the Academy of Natural Sciences on August 7, 1876 in San Francisco, California by William G…

Scientific American Supplement

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, having launched its first publication in 1…

Scientific American Supplement

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, having launched its first publication in 1…

The Atom and the Ocean

by E. W. Seabrook Hull Read by LibriVox Volunteers
This is one of the publications in the “Understanding the Atom” Series from the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. Topics covered include an o…

A Catechism of Familiar Things

by William James McGlothlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
This book, a reprint of a successful English publication, has been so enlarged as to be to all intents and purposes new. It has been careful…

Submerged Forests

by Clement Reid Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Submerged Forests, a volume in the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature series, is a study of the land beneath the coastal areas and …

Miscellanea Curiosa

by Edmond Halley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3
"The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous ex…

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