Ingenierie

0000414 — Collection of pamphlets folding plates & extracts from periodicals bound in a 4to half black morocco album. A manuscript note in ink on the ffep describes translated from the French the contents as individual works collected as a souvenir of Buenos Aires for “our friend†Pierre Michel-Levy 10/11/1904 signed “Duclout.†Binding worn: rubbed upper cover hanging by a cord contents generally very good one plate with long closed tear. <br/><br/> Contents include: Duclout Jorge. Conferencia final del curso de Teoria de la elasticidad dictado en le Fac. de Ciencias Fisico-Matemaбticas de le Universidad de la Capital. Buenos Aires: G. Kraft 1888. 8vo original wraps; 33 pp. Duclout Jorge. Republica Argentina: Deuda publica exterior y capitales Europeos empleados por sociedades anonimas. Buenos Aires: Felix Lajouane 1890. 8vo original wraps; 24 pp. Duclout Jorge. Estudio sobre las hipotesis mecanicas que sirven de base a la teoria electro-magnetica de la luz de Maxwell. Buenos Aires: Pablo E. Coni 1892. 8vo reprinted from los Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina tomo XXXIII paginas 73 y siguientes; 26 pp. Duclout Jorge. Los fundamentos de la geometria y el conocimiento del espacio. Buenos Aires: Pablo E. Coni 1893. Tall 8vo original wraps; 118 pp. plus 13 folding plates. Duclout Georges. Thйorie du flambage des piиces йlastiques comprimйes: Extrait du cours d'йlasticitй de la facultй des sciences exactes physiques et mathйmatiques de Buenos-Ayres. Paris: n.p. Imprimerie Chaix 1896. 8vo original wraps an extract from the 1896 Memoires de la Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France; 45 pp. A theory of the elasticity of space. Various tipped-in extracts from Argentine periodicals including “La Biblioteca†and “La Ingeniera†from 1897 and 1898 on subjects as diverse as wireless telegraphy the filling and dredging of canals the testing of various South American woods with numerous microscopic cross-section photographs and numerous folding plates. Duclout Jorge. Calculo de una draga a succion. Buenos Aires: Tailhade y Rosselli 1899. 8vo original wraps; 27 pp. The collection concludes with a tipped in biographical article in Spanish which is translated and provided in part below: “Referred to as the “Champion of Relativity†Jorge born Georges Duclout 1854–1927 was the first to lecture on Relativity in Argentina. In 1922 the University of Buenos Aires Council approved his motion to send an invitation to fellow Eidgenцssische Technische Hochschule alumnus Albert Einstein to visit Argentina and give a course of lectures on his theory of relativity. The visit took place three years later in March–April 1925. Although by then Duclout was aging and in ill health a memorable visit took place between the two men. The visit also produced the “Unpublished Opening Lecture for Einstein’s Course on Relativity Theory in Argentina 1925†paperback books