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Ch 13 - The Glass Cage
Nineteenth century idea of measuring intake and outflow, of quantifying the relationship between food+ and energy, leading to creation of modern “calorie”.
Editor Edward Youmans, the founder of Popular Science, promoted the idea of the “gospel of energy.” How America turned energy into work.
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Nineteenth century idea of measuring intake and outflow, of quantifying the relationship between food+ and energy, leading to creation of modern “calorie”.
Editor Edward Youmans, the founder of Popular Science, promoted the idea of the “gospel of energy.” How America turned energy into work.
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The “money doctor”prescribing these loans for “sick nations “ was Princeton economist Edwin Kemmerer who had studied at Wesleyan where W.O. Atwater conducted the calorimeter experiments (the record-setting one Kemmerer witnessed) and where U.S. PMG William L. Wilson inspiring visiting lecture on public service. K then developed the logic of the calorimeter into a system of inter’l financial governance.
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