The Diamond Maker
Title | The Diamond Maker PDF eBook |
Author | H G Wells |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2019-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781086756029 |
"The Diamond Maker" is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1894 in the Pall Mall Budget. It was included in The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents, the first collection of short stories by Wells, first published in 1895
The Diamond Makers
Title | The Diamond Makers PDF eBook |
Author | Robert M. Hazen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 1999-07-22 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780521654746 |
Humans have treasured diamonds for their exquisite beauty and unrivaled hardness for thousands of years. Deep within the earth, diamonds grow. Diamonds the size of footballs, the size of watermelons - billions of tons of diamonds wait for eternity a hundred miles beyond our reach. Spanning centuries of ground-breaking science, bitter rivalry, outright fraud, and self-delusion, The Diamond Makers is a compelling narrative centered around the brilliant, often eccentric, and controversial pioneers of high pressure research. This vivid blend of dramatic personal stories and extraordinary scientific advances - and devastating failures - brings alive the quest to create diamond. Scientists have harnessed crushing pressures and scorching temperatures to transform almost any carbon-rich material, from road tar to peanut butter, into the most prized of gems. The book reveals the human dimensions of research - the competition, bravery, jealousy, teamwork, and greed that ultimately led to today's billion-dollar diamond synthesis industry.
The Diamond Maker
Title | The Diamond Maker PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Benjamin Reeve |
Publisher | Read Books Ltd |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 2015-07-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1473371236 |
This early work by Arthur Benjamin Reeve was originally published in 1912 and we are now republishing it with a brand new biography. "The Diamond Maker" is a story of synthetic diamonds and a con man. Arthur Benjamin Reeve was born on 15th October 1880 in New York, USA. Reeve received his University education at Princeton and upon graduating enrolled at the New York Law School. However, his career was not destined to be in the field of Law. Between 1910 and 1918 he produced 82 short stories for Cosmopolitan. During this period he also began authoring screenplays. By the end of this decade his film career was at its peak with his name appearing on seven films, most of them serials and three of them starring Harry Houdini. In 1932 he moved to Trenton to be near his alma mater. He died on 9th August 1936.
The Diamond Maker
Title | The Diamond Maker PDF eBook |
Author | H G Wells |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2021-01-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
"The Diamond Maker" is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1894 in the Pall Mall Budget. It was included in The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents, the first collection of short stories by Wells, published in 1895.
The Diamond Maker Illustrated
Title | The Diamond Maker Illustrated PDF eBook |
Author | H G Wells |
Publisher | |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2021-01-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Diamond Maker is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1894 in the Pall Mall Budget.It was included in The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents, the first collection of short stories by Wells, first published in 1895.In the story, a businessman hears an account from a man who has devoted years attempting to make artificial diamonds, only to end as a desperate outcast.
The Diamond Maker
Title | The Diamond Maker PDF eBook |
Author | H. G. Wells |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2014-03-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781497339170 |
Some business had detained me in Chancery Lane nine in the evening, and thereafter, having some inkling of a headache, I was disinclined either for entertainment or further work. So much of the sky as the high cliffs of that narrow canon of traffic left visible spoke of a serene night, and I determined to make my way down to the Embankment, and rest my eyes and cool my head by watching the variegated lights upon the river.
The Diamond Maker Herbert George Wells
Title | The Diamond Maker Herbert George Wells PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert George Wells |
Publisher | |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 2019-06-25 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781076034946 |
It was known since experiments of Antoine Lavoisier that diamond was a form of carbon.Wells's story appeared a few years after the claims of James Ballantyne Hannay in 1879 and Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan in 1893, that they had made artificial diamonds. Moissan heated charcoal (a form of carbon) and iron in a furnace until the iron melted; then rapidly cooled, the iron would generate high pressure and transform the charcoal into diamonds. Others tried to repeat this experiment in later years, and very small diamonds were created; commercially successful production of synthetic diamonds was not achieved until the 1950s.