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189758530New York: Street Railway Publishing Co. 1897. 8vo. 8 268 pp. With 139 text illustrations diagrams photos plates. Blue-green publisher’s cloth embossed ruling on covers gilt lettering on spine patterned endpapers minor light uniform interior toning inner hinges starting minor tear to gutter margin of ffep. still VG- copy w/ ownership markings of Adolf Kuylenstjerne. First edition of this informative Victorian work on powering electric railways trolleys interurbans and heavy railways. Dr. Bell 1864-1923 was an active proponent of the conversion from steam engines to electricity for railways not only for the cost savings but also the increased efficiencies less maintenance and more horsepower. See: Warren Devine Jr. An Historical Perspective on the Value of Electricity in American Manufacturing 1982 pp. 19-20. Street Railway Publishing Co., hardcover
18969601London: Longmans Green 1896. 1st Edition. . Book Book Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London: Longmans Green 1896. 1st Edition . Very Good/No Jacket. pp552 publisher's announcements. Octavo. Blue cloth binding. PO bookplate inside front cover. London: Longmans, Green hardcover
183442332London Richard Taylor 1834 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1834 - Part II. Pp. 531-550 and 3 lithogrpahed plates. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>The paper investigates the electrical organs of this electrical fish. </em> unknown
187317254St. Louis: np 1873. Frontispiece plate showing the apparatus. 1 vols. 8vo. Plain salmon wrappers some fading and marginal tears 7 pages of text. From the library of William H. Brewer the chemist who has signed his name on the upper wrapper and marked a few places in the text. Frontispiece plate showing the apparatus. 1 vols. 8vo. Casselberry's discovery was a less expensive method of decomposing liquids. He used electricity and during his experiments found that two decomposing cells attached to a galvanic battery or magneto-electric machine will generate twice the gas as a single cell. Prior to Casselberry's experiment it had been assumed that the resulting gas would be half as much as the electricity would be split into the two cells. This small pamphlet has no imprint information it was likely a small run probably for private distribution among colleagues. Decomposing liquids with Electricity. <br/><br/> np unknown
18536584London: Saunders and Stanford 1853. First Edition. 31 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound. First Edition. 31 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Watson patented several galvanic batteries. He was an early advocate of more commercial use of "electrical illumination" with the by-product of fine color pigments. Not in Wheeler Gift. Not in Wheeler Gift <br/><br/> Saunders and Stanford unknown
184249135Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1842. No wrappers. In: In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff" Ergänzungsband Nach Bd. LI einzuschalten Stück 3. Pp. 385-528 a. 1 plate. Entire issue offered. Faraday's paper: pp. 385-405. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance in German - prepared by Faraday himself for publication in Annalen - of this paper in which Faraday finds by experimenting with a species of Gymnotus a group of electric fishes one was send to him by Humboldt proves that its electricity is of the same nature as all other kinds of electricity "The skock in very varied circumstances of position was procured: the galvanonmets affected magnets were made a wire was heated polar chemical decomposition was effected and the spark obtained."Abstract. </em> unknown
1896JC126001896. Ephemera. Very Good. Single leaf tan paper printed and illustrated an image of DeLeon's act in black ink on the recto only 355x165mm; with cloth backing. Some flattened creases from folding; a little light wrinkling; faint inkstamp. Displays nicely. <br/><br/>DeLeon was known for walking on a bare cable charged with electricity 50 feet in mid-air a continuous current "passing through his body. beautifully illuminated by the deadly fluid." He "makes an Arc Lamp of himself by holding a carbon in each hand and thus forming a lamp of 2000 Candle power." Step right up. unknown
188251741Paris G. Masson 1882. Small 8vo. Orig. full decorated cloth. Gilt spine gilt covers. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. A stamp on title-page. Frontispiece woodcut. 536 pp. and 186 woodcut illustrations in the text many full-page. Scattered faint brownspots. <br/><br/><em>First edition. This exposition which took place in Paris 1881 was a great stir. The public could admire the dynamo of Zénobe Gramme the incandescent light bulbs of Thomas Edison the Théâtrophone the electric tramway of Werner von Siemens the telephone of Alexander Graham Bell an electrical distribution network by Marcel Deprez and an electric boat by Gustave Trouvé etc. etc. </em> hardcover
183942286London Richard and John E. Taylor 1839. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1839 - Part I. Pp. 1-12. 1 textillustr. Some discolouring to the 2 first leaves. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of this paper in which Faraday finds by experimenting with a species of Gymnotus a group of electric fishes one was send to him by Humboldt proves that its electricity is of the same nature as all other kinds of electricity "The skock in very varied circumstances of position was procured: the galvanonmets affected magnets were made a wire was heated polar chemical decomposition was effected and the spark obtained."Abstract.From 1831 to 1852 Michael Faraday published his "Experimental Researches in Electricity" in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These papers contain not only an impressive series of experimental discoveries but also a collection of heterodox theoretical concepts on the nature of these phenomena expressed in terms of lines of forces and fields. He published 30 papers in all under this general title.They represents Faraday's most importent work are classics in both chemistry and physics and are the experimental foundations for Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light using Faraday's concepts of lines of force or tubes of magnetic and electrical forces. His many experiments on the effects of electricity and magnetism presented in these papers lead to the fundamental discoveries of 'induced electricity' the Farday current the electronic state of matter the identity of electricity from different sources equivalents in electro-chemical decomposition electrostatic induction hydro-electricity diamagnetism relation of gravity to electricity atmospheric magnetism and many other."Among experimental philosophers Faraday holds by universal consent the foremost place. The memoirs in which his discoveries are enshrined will never ceaseto be read with admiration and delight; and future generations will preserve with an affection not less enduring the personal records and familiar letters which recall the memory of his humble and unselfish spirit."Edmund Whittaker in A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity. </em> unknown
185143324Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1851. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff" Bd. 83 Viertes Stück.= Heft No. 8 of 1851. The entire issue offered Heft 2 of vol. 83 with titlepage to vol. 83. Pp.469-600 a. 2 engraved plates. Helmholtz's paper: pp. 505-540. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of this paper in which Helmholtz for the first time measures and gives the mathematical formula for the duration of induced electrical currents and thus distinguished with mathematical accuracy from those due to nerve-action."In the offered paper he begins by stating a mathematical law which he had verified by a long and difficult series of experiments. By means of this law F. neumann was enabled to solve the problem he had previously laid aside as to the distribution of current in a copper disk rotating below the two poles of a magnet.After Helmholtz had extended this exponiential law mathematically to divided circuits he tested it experimentally by means of a new type of galvanic contact-key which madeit possible to vary the interval between the opening and closing of any current as required."Koenigsberger "Hermann von helmholtz" pp. 79-80. </em> unknown
183443489Paris Crochard 1834. Without wrappers as extracted from: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." Tome 57 2e Series. Titlepage to vol. 57. Pp. 5-70. A few marginal brownspots. <br/><br/><em>First French edition of Gauss' "Intensitas vis magneticae terrestris ad mensuram absolutam revocata" 1833 Gauss' first work on magnwetism in which appeared the first systematic use of of absolute units distance mass time to measure nonmechanical quantity magnetism and electricity. - "It contains the first measurement of magnetic and electric quantities" Magie A Source Book in Physics p. 519.G. Waldo Dunnington No. 99. - Weaver Cat.: 867 Latin ed. </em> unknown
183343488Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1833. Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff" Bd. 28. 6. u. 8. Stück. Entire issues offered Pp. 244-448 a. pp. 530-646 a. 4 engraved plates. Gauss' paper: pp.241-273 a. pp. 591-615. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First German translation of Gauss' "Intensitas vis magneticae terrestris ad mensuram absolutam revocata" Gauss' first work on magnetism issued the same year as this first German edition and in which appeared the first systematic use of of absolute units distance mass time to measure nonmechanical quantity magnetism and electricity. - "It contains the first measurement of magnetic and electric quantities" Magie A Source Book in Physics p. 519.The volume contains other notable papers: by Mitscherlich Döbereiner Dutrochet Graham Berzelius Stromeyer F. Wöhler Heinrich u. Gustav Rose Hansteen Arago Pelouze Liebig etc. etc.G. Waldo Dunnington No. 99. - Weaver: 867 Latin ed. </em> unknown
183447416Paris Crochard 1834. Without wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." Tome 57 2e Series. Cahier 1. 112 pp. entire issue offered with titlepage to vol. 57. Gauss' paper: p. 5-69. Some brownspots. <br/><br/><em>First French edition of Gauss' "Intensitas vis magneticae terrestris ad mensuram absolutam revocata" 1833 Gauss' first work on magnwetism in which appeared the first systematic use of of absolute units distance mass time to measure nonmechanical quantity magnetism and electricity. - "It contains the first measurement of magnetic and electric quantities" Magie A Source Book in Physics p. 519.G. Waldo Dunnington No. 99. - Weaver Cat.: 867 Latin ed. </em> unknown
185745075Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1857. Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff" Bd. 100 No 2 . Pp. 177-252 a. 1 plate. Entire issue offered. Kirchhoff's paper: pp. 193-217. With titlepage to volume 100. <br/><br/><em>First printing of an importent papers on the theory of electricity in conductors telegraph-cables etc. determining the velocity of the electrical propagation. He found that the propagation velocity of electricity to be "very close to the velocity of light in empty space"."The work of Thomson on signalling along cables was followed in 1857 the paper offered by a celebrated investigation by Kirchhoff's on the propagation of electrical disturbance along a telegraph wire of circular cross-section. Whittaker "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity" pp. 230 ff."The field was still open the nature of the electric current when Kirchhoff entered it in 1857 with his own general theory of the motion of electricity in conductors. His first paper in which he treated linear conductors from the same premises as Weber turned out to coincide in all essentials with an investigation carried out by Weber shortly before but delayed in publication. Both physicists noticed a remarkable implication of their theory: in a perfectly conducting circuit oscillating currents could be propagated with a constant velocity independent of the nature of the conductors and numerically equal to the velocity of light. Both Kirchhoff and Weber however pointing to the extreme character of the condition of infinite conductivity dismissed this result as a mere accidental coincidence."DSB </em> unknown
180243637Halle Rengerschen Buchhandlung 1802-1803. Without wrappers as published in "Annalen der Physik. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert" Bd. 10 Viertes Stück. The entire issue offered = Stück 4. Titlepage to vol. 10. Pp. 389-512 a. 1 engraved plate. Extract from Ergänzungsheft zum Jahre 1802. =Zweite Abhandlung. Volta's papers: pp. 421-449 a. pp. 497-520. Very light browning to 2. Abhandlung. <br/><br/><em>First appearance in German of Volta's importent paper in which he describes the electrical forces that acts between the metal-plates in the Voltaic Pile. The German publication was printed in the same year as the Italian original "Sull' identita del Fluido Elettrico col Fluide Galvanico" 1802."A long memoir by Volta in two parts.reports that by measuring the electrometer deflections with different pairs of metals he found that the forces which drive the electric fluid.from the first metal to the second are: silver/copper 1 copper/iron 2 iron/thin 3 lead/tin 1 lead/zinc 5. Then the force for silver/zinc in immidiate contact is 12 12315 copper/tin 5 = 32 iron/zinc 9 513 etc. Thus 'the force or impulsion with which two metals act on the electric fluid is equal to the sum of the forces of the series of metals which stands between them and.the electric force is the same as that which arises when the two extreme metals have no effect on the force of the latter'. This is the first statement of what Maxwell called 'Volta'slaw of contact electricity'."Partington IV p.15. </em> unknown
189743448Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1897. No wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie Neue Folge" Bd. 60 No 3. Pp. 401-576 textillustr. and 2 folded plates. the entire issue offered "Heft 3". Braun's paper: pp. 552-559 a. 6 textillustrations showing the Braun tube and its operations. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First printing of this groundbreaking paper being the first description of the principles governing the "BRAUN TUBE" which moves the elctron beams of alternating voltage the principle on which ALL TELEVISON TUBES operate. - Braun shared the Nobel Prize for 1909 with Marconi "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy"."Cold cathode tube with side anode annular diaphragm to control spot size and built-in fluorescent screen. Beam deflection by one external coil with the trace viewed indirectly in a rotating mirror or by two coils at right angles for direct viewing. Excitation by hand-drive influence machine friction generator or by an induction coil. This "indicator tube" which enabled Braun to demonstrate how a variety of periodic and transient electrical phenomena could be visually examined is the ancestor of electric oscilloscopes televison picture tubes and other electron-beam display devices." Shiers & Shiers "Early Televison. A Bibliography to 1940" No. 263."The first oscilloscope or Braun tube was introduced in 1897. In order to study high-frequency alternating currents Braun used the alternating voltageto move the electron beam within the cathode tube. The trace on the face of the cathode tube represented the amplitude and frequency of the alternating-current voltage. He then produced a graph of this trace by use of a rotating mirror. The Braun tube was a valuable laboratory instrument and modifications of it are a basic devise in electronic testing and research. The principle of the Braun tube moving a electron beam by means of alternating voltage is the principle on which all televison operate."DSB II pp. 427-428.In 1909 he shared the Nobel Prize for physics with Guglielmo Marconi for their development of wireless telegraphy. </em> unknown
183448203Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1834. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Spine slightly rubbed. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff" Bd. 35. X6308 pp. a. 5 folded lithographed plates. Entire volume offered. Faraday's papers: pp. 1-45 a. 222-226 1 plate 8. Reihe - pp. 413-444 9. Reihe. Stamp to verso of titlepage and verso of plates. Clean and fine printed on good paper. <br/><br/><em>First appearance in German - prepared by Faraday himself for publication in Annalen - of two groundbreakings papers in chemistry and physiscs.In the FIRST PAPER 8. Reihe Faraday brings forth the idea "that the atoms of matter are in some way endowed or associated with electrical powers to which they owe their most striking qualities and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity." He showed how natural it is to suppose that the electricity which passes through the electrolyte is exact equivaklent of that which is possessed by the atoms separated at the electrode: which implies that there is A CERTAIN ABSOLUTE QUANTITY OF THE ELECTRIC POWER ASSOCIATED WITH EACH ATOM OF MATTER.- Faraday further verifies that the electricity of the violtaic pile is proportionate in its intensity to the intensity of the affinities concerned in its production. - Dealing with the the decompositions in electrolysis he shows that THE FORCES TERMED CHEMICAL AFFINITY AND ELECTRICITY ARE THE SAME.In the SECOND PAPER 9. Reihe Faraday independent of Henry's discovery of the same phenomena in 1832 discovers SELF-INDUCTION or the "extra current" and points out the importent influence it must have in the construction of electro-magnetic machines electro-motors."Faraday showed that the powerful momentary current which was observed when the circuit was interrupted was really an induced current governed by the same laws as all other induced currents but with this peculiarity that the induced and inducing current now flowed in the same circuit. In fact the current in its steady state establishes in the surrounding region a magnetic field whose lines of force are linked with the circuit; and teh removal of these lines of forcewhen the circuit is broken originates an induced current which reatly reinforces the primary current just before its final extinction."Whittaker in "A History of the Aether and Electricity""In the series of experiments which are detailed in this paper the author inquires into the causes of some remarkable phenomena relating to the action of an electrical current upon itself under certain circumstances wherby its intensity is highly exalted and occasionally increased to ten twenty or even fifty times that which it originally possessed."Abstract. </em> unknown
186441709London Taylor and Francis 1864. No wrappers as extracted from"Proceedings of the Royal Society". From November 19 1863 to December 22 1864 inclusive." Vol. XIII. Pp 531-536. <br/><br/><em>First printing of the first announcement of Maxwell unification of light-waves electricity and magnetism the most importent of the papers relating to his electromagnetic theory in which he brought electro-magnetical phenomena on a clear mathematical form. The present paper is an abstract of the larger paper which was read to the Royal Academy in 1864 but only issued the year later 1865 in "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" where it was printed in full and as an abstract in "Philosophical Magazine" 1865."A generation later Einstein's work on relativity was founded directly oupon Maxwell's electromagnetic theory; it was this that led him to equate Faraday with Galileo and Maxwell with Newton." PMM No 355 but only the paper from 1865. - Dibner. Heralds of Science No 68 1865 paper. </em> unknown