The Chemist in Three Wars: A Paper Read Before the American Institute of Chemists at Chicago, September 18, 1942 by Eisenschiml, Otto

Very Good. Paperback. Softcover booklet with stapled binding. No publishing information provided. Very clean; no marks or creases; pages bright; binding tight. 35 pages. Language: English. 'In the Civil War three chemists kept the South in the running until the end; one chemist in the North made the United States independent of the most critical foreign material. In the first World War, a German chemist almost decided the issue in favor of his country through one brilliant thought. ... Our enemies have had the initiative in every theater of this war so far.... But we have no excuse whatever for letting the initiative slip from our hands in the chemical field; it is an even race....'--from page 35. Eisenschiml (1880-1963) was an Austrian-born industrial chemist and president of the Scientific Oil Compounding Company. An amateur historian who was especially interested in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, he wrote several books about the Civil War. In his 1937 book, Why Was Lincoln Murdered?, he suggested that Secretary of War Edwin Stanton had conspired to kill the president. Eisenschiml's book inspired the 1977 book The Lincoln Conspiracy, by David Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier, and later the movie. This booklet is interesting in that it, in part, combines the author's primary interests of chemistry and the Civil War. Uncommon title. Keywords: America, U.S., warfare, military, organic, inorganic, history, technology, invention, engineer, process, processing, ordnance, gunpowder, saltpeter, mercury, industrialization, development, Josiah Gorgas, Gabriel J. Rains, John William Mallett, Lammot DuPont, War Between the States, Second, I, II, poison, gas, chlorine, Allies, Allied, Germany, oil, rubber, substitute, synthetic, science. No ISBN.