Patriotism

Sadi Carnot has been called the founder of the science of thermodynamics, In 1824, when he was twenty-eight, he first became interested in steam engines. All that time. Great Britain led the world m the design and improvement of such engines for industrial purposes. Always the French patriot, Carnot wanted his counti y to surpass the British, who had spawned the Industrial Revolution. He thought... 

Sadly one of the by-products from his first step was the powerfully corrosive hydrochloric acid, a potentially serious pollutant. But Leblanc may have been so excited at making sodium carbonate that he hardly noticed. He had found a way to synthesize a purer and thus more efficient substitute for the alkali traditionally extracted from plant ashes. When perfected, his method would make stronger, more consistent soda with far more alkali than the best soda made from plants. He must have felt utterly elated. He was a patriot about to save French industry and win a fortune, 12,000 gold coins. 

With breathtaking speed, Haber s life fell from a pinnacle of fame and glory to a state of catastrophe. As he wrote a friend, I was one of the mightiest men in Germany. I was more than a great army commander, more than a captain of industry. I was the founder of industries my work was essential for the economic and military expansion of Germany. All doors were open to me. But after April 1933, doors began to close, one by one, on the patriotic Jew. 

Fritz Stern. Einstein s German World. Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press, 1999. Source for the richest English-language portrait of Haber the man. Source for Breslau patriots Virchow and Max Planck Einstein quotations help with Einstein s divorce Ostwald ignores Einstein chess and detective novels. 

Pasteur, however, was not one to gloat over such successes and rest on his laurels. He sought for other fields of investi-gation. His choice was guided largely by patriotic motives, An Englishman had written to him ... 

The defendants will, no doubt, tell us that they were merely over-zealous and perhaps misguided, patriots. We will hear it said all they planned to do was what any patriotic businessmen would have done under similar circumstances.. .. As for the carnage of war, and the slaughter of innocents, they will tell us, those were the regrettable deeds of Hitler and the Nazis, to whose dictatorship they, too, were subject.. -. 

Q. Dr. Krauch, you stated that you complied with war-emergency measures because of patriotic reasons ... 

The truth is, friends, that when liberties had to be gained by the sword and protected by the sword, men necessarily came to the front (35) and seemed to be the only creators and defenders of these liberties hence all the way down women have been content to do their patriotic work silently and through men, who are the fighters by nature rather than themselves, until the present day but now at last, when it is established that ballots instead of bullets are to rule the world. . . (40) now, it is high time that women ceased to attempt to establish justice and promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity, through the votes of men. . . ... 

Patrick Henry is considered one of the great patriots of America s early history. He was a leader in every protest against British tyranny and in every movement for colonial rights, openly speaking against the unfair taxation and overly burdensome regulations imposed upon the American colonists by the British Parliament. 

The men who worked together almost night and day to devise efficient gas masks or means of submarine detection or methods of sound ranging were not workmen under the orders of a superior, but free associations of scientists with training in common or related fields of research and under the inspiration of a common patriotism. Precisely this is what is needed to achieve the victories of peace. Effective cooperation cannot be imposed from above by administrative authority but can only come by free democratic action of investigators themselves. (9). 

The extension into peacetime of project-research required a commonly held ideal similar to the "inspiration of a common patriotism." Armsby believed this could be found in the program of the newly reorganized NRC, in that its plan for cooperative research was based upon the voluntary initiative of investigators, united by their common interest in solving problems essential for the advancement of science in the United States. Because the leaders of the NRC were convinced that this attitude prevailed... 

Again, it is also important to remember that chemical emergency situations can easily reach beyond the boundaries of any industrial plant. This is to be expected, especially in this age of population explosion with its characteristic urban sprawl. It is not unusual to find, for example, a chemical industrial plant site or other industrial plant that originally was isolated from city dwellers but later became surrounded on all sides by neighbors. The point is that when a chemical spill or chemical disaster occurs in an isolated area there may be no cause for general alarm however, when such a deliberate disaster occurs in the plant site as described in the sugar plant incident, it should be clear that the purpose of PSM, RMP, the Patriot Act, Homeland Security directives, OSHA s Combustible Dust NEP, and other safety/security factors is far-reaching—and absolutely critical to the survival of a free society. 

Bottled water companies continued to provide bottled water to responders and rescuers at the 9/11 sites throughout the post-event processes. These patriotic actions by the bottled water companies, however, beg the question How do we ensure the safety and security of the bottled water provided to anyone IBWA (2004) has the answer Using a multibarrier approach, along with other principles, will enhance the safety and security of bottled water. IBWA (2004, 3) describes its multibarrier approach as follows ... 

On the other hand, however, immigrant editors (and especially Celts) were quite sensitive to the narrow racial patriotism of Anglo-Saxondom, and to its troubling historical erasures. As T. St. John Gaffney remarked,... 

A combination of coolness and luck enabled Jeanne to weather this dangerous moment. To her relief, both the cardinal and the jewelers were so excited that they made no effort to check the authenticity of the signature, Marie-Antoinette de France, penned clumsily by Retaux on the side of the bill of sale. Neither did they realize that the queen, as an Austrian patriot, never signed herself this way. 

Tanker Hawaiian Patriot Pacific Ocean, 593 km west of Kauai Island, Hawaii 1977 February 23 101,000... 

As I have eommented during media interviews, real guinea pigs do not volunteer freely or sign consent forms. Nevertheless, many persist in the use of this shop-worn eliehe. I would say just the opposite - that our volunteers performed a patriotic service, and almost invariably felt good about it ... 

I have no doubt that reports of this type catalyzed the acceleration of our research activities. Happily, it also opened the coffers of government funds more widely. Other intelligence reports indicated that the Soviet Union was spending ten times as much as we were on the development of its chemical warfare capabilities. This fueled the sense of urgency regarding our efforts in the lab and strengthened the belief (mostly an illusion, as we learned later) that we had to go all out if we wanted to stay ahead of the Russians. As much as anything, this belief imparted a patriotic fervor to our efforts. 

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