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Slosson, Edwin E., 1865-1929

"Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries"

Mitchell Palmer in _Saturday
Evening Post_, July 19, 1919, tells of how Germany monopolized chemical
industry. "The Carbonization of Coal" by V.B. Lewis (Van Nostrand,
1912). "Research in the Tar Dye Industry" by B.C. Hesse in _Journal of
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry_, September, 1916.
Kekule tells how he discovered the constitution of benzene in the
_Berichte der Deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft_, V. XXIII, I, p. 1306.
I have quoted it with some other instances of dream discoveries in _The
Independent_ of Jan. 26, 1918. Even this innocent scientific vision has
not escaped the foul touch of the Freudians. Dr. Alfred Robitsek in
"Symbolisches Denken in der chemischen Forschung," _Imago_, V. I, p. 83,
has deduced from it that Kekule was morally guilty of the crime of
OEdipus as well as minor misdemeanors.

CHAPTER V
Read up on the methods of extracting perfumes from flowers in any
encyclopedia or in Duncan's "Chemistry of Commerce" or Tilden's
"Chemical Discovery in the Twentieth Century" or Rogers' "Industrial
Chemistry.


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