1. The Museum was founded on 26 June 1909. For the weather and the business climate in the summer of 1909 see Wesley Clair Mitchell, Business Cycles (New York: Burt Franklin, 1970, first published in 1913) p. 79.
2. G.R. Searle, The Quest for National Efficiency. A Study in British Politics and Political Thought, 1899–1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971).
3. Roy M. Macleod, ‘The Support of Vlctorian Science: The Endowment of Research Movement in Great Britain, 1868–1900’, Minerva 4 (1971), pp. 197–230.
4. H.G. Wells, War in the Air (London: George Bell and Sons, 1908).
5. David I. Harvie, ‘The Radium Century’, Endeavour 23 (1999), pp. 100–5.