“In every cook-book I have examined, and in all the medico-dietetical works I have consulted, I find saleratus or pearlash, and salt always in the recipe for making what those books call brown, dyspepsia, or …
Before Einstein and Oppenheimer started working with uranium on the Manhattanville project in 1939, the U.S. government had already approached a different company with a different chemical challenge. In 1937, Captain Paul P. Logan, of the Quartermaster Corps in Washington, …