The 1940s Science and Technology: For More Information

BOOKS

Allan, Tony. Understanding DNA: A Breakthrough in Science. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2002.

Asimov, Isaac. How Did We Find Out About Atoms? New York: Avon Books, 1982.

Bankston, John. Edward Teller and the Development of the Hydrogen Bomb. Bear, DE: Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2002.

Brown, Jim. Radar: How It All Began. London: Janus, 1996.

Chronicle of the Twentieth Century. Mount Cisco, NY: Chronicle, 1994.

Collier, Christopher, and James Lincoln Collier. The United States in the Cold War. New York: Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish, 2001.

Cook, Chris, and David Waller, eds. The Longman Handbook of Modern American History, 1763–1996. New York: Longman, 1998.

Diggins, John P. The Proud Decades: America in War and in Peace, 1941–1960. New York: Norton, 1988.

Editors of Time Life Books. Decade of Triumph: The 40s. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1999.

Encyclopedia of Technology and Applied Sciences. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2000.

Hills, Ken. 1940s. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1992.

Jefferis, David. Supersonic Flight. New York: Franklin Watts, 1988.

Kevles, Daniel J. The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America. New York: Knopf, 1978.

Keylin, Arleen, and Jonathan Cohen, eds. The Forties. New York: Arno Press, 1980.

Larson, Rebecca. Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb. New York: Franklin Watts, 1988.

Macmillan Encyclopedia of Science. New York: Macmillan Reference, 1997.

McCartney, Scott. ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer. New York: Walker, 1999.

Nagel, Rob, ed. U•X•L Encyclopedia of Science. Detroit: U•X•L, 2001.

Northrup, Mary. American Computer Pioneers. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1998.

Rabinowitz, Harold. Classic Airplanes: Pioneering Aircraft and the Visionaries Who Built Them. New York: MetroBooks, 1997.

Snedden, Robert. The History of Genetics. New York: Thomson Learning, 1995.

Stille, Darlene R. Extraordinary Women Scientists. Chicago: Children's Press, 1995.

Stwertka, Albert, and Eve Stwertka. Physics: From Newton to the Big Bang. New York: Franklin Watts, 1986.

Taylor, Michael J.H., ed. Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. New York: Crescent Books, 1993.

Uschan, Michael V. The 1940s. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 1999.

Wood, Tim, and R.J. Unstead. The 1940s. New York: Franklin Watts, 1990.

Yount, Lisa. Genetics and Genetic Engineering. New York: Facts on File, 1997.

WEB SITES

American Institute of Physics: Center For History of Physics. [Online] http://www.aip.org/history/ (accessed August 9, 2002).

NASA X-1 Fiftieth Anniversary Homepage. [Online] http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/x1/index.html (accessed August 9, 2002).