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SNOW WilbertABAA

Before the Wind

HARRIS Sir William Snow 1791 1867.ABAA

The Bakerian Lecture. - Inquiries concerning elementary laws of electricity.

1839S4189London:: Richard and John E. Taylor 1839. 1839. Third Series. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCXXXIX Part II. 305 x 241 mm. 4to. Pages 215-241. Entire volume: vi 215-438 12 4 pp. 6 tables. Original navy cloth black leather spine label gilt spine; joints reinforced with kozo. Very good. FIRST EDITION of William Harris' Bakerian Lecture. Harris contributed papers on the elementary laws of electricity in 1834 1836 and 1839 and they are described in the DNB as "his best work." Sir William Snow Harris was an electrician who was knighted in 1847 for his improved lightning conductor. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1831. In 1835 Harris received the Copley Medal from the Royal Society for his papers on the laws of electricity of high tension. "The two great authorities on electrical distribution and its consequences are Coulomb and Sir William Harris. . . on repeating the experiments Harris found Coulomb's results only approximately correct and modified these laws accordingly. . ." â€“ John T. Sprague Electricity: Its Theory Sources and Applications 2nd ed. London 1884 p. 63. "Sir William Snow Harris 1 April 1791 â€“ 22 January 1867 was an English physician and electrical researcher1 nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris2 and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships. It took many years of campaigning research and successful testing before the British Royal Navy changed to Harris's conductors from their previous less effective system. One of the successful test vessels was HMS Beagle which survived lightning strikes unharmed on her famous voyage with Charles Darwin. . . He read papers on the elementary laws of electricity to the Society in 1834 1836 and 1839 and also sent accounts of his experiments and discoveries to the Royal Society of Edinburgh." â€“ Wikip. REFERENCES: DNB XI pp. 30-31; Encyclopaedia Britannica XIII pp. 20-21; Mottelay Bibliographical history of electricity and magnetism pp. 468-469. See: Uman Martin A. The Art and Science of Lightning Protection. Cambridge University Press 2008. pp. 175â€“176 179. Richard and John E. Taylor, 1839. hardcover books

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Knowlton Fannie SnowABAA

Autograph Musical Quotation "There little girl don't cry" by Fannie Knowlton

189976141899. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed and dated Februrary 6 99; a section of Knowlton's arrangement of "There Little Girl Don't Cry" pasted with two photographs of the composer one sepia one b/w on a gray card written and signed by Knowlton. Size: 6 x 6-1/2" .Top edge slightly sunned. Marks on back of card from the removal of other pasted items. "There! Little Girl Don't Cry!" is a musical adaptation of the poet James Whitcomb Riley's poem "A Life-Lesson". Fanny Snow Knowlton's 1859-1926 arrangement of this popular Riley poem published in 1891 by Brainard's Sons Company of Chicago was one the earliest arrangements written by a woman. An American composer Knowlton was writing during a period of great opportunity for female composers. From 1890 to 1930 scores and musical compositions by women were being published in record numbers in the United States. For her arrangements Knowlton selected popular poems such as Riley's "A Life-Lesson" and Samuel Minton Peck's "The Grapevine Swing" and well-known hymns such as "Give Ear to my Words O Lord" and "Come Unto Me All Ye That Labor." In 1903 she produced one book of sheet music Hawthorn and Lavender: A Song-Cycle for Women's Voices with Piano Accompaniment. Her work was mainly published by two Chicago companies: Brainard's and Clayton F. Summy. Riley 1849-1916 was a famous Indiana journalist and poet and his words appealed to common people especially children. Riley was known as "The Hoosier Poet" because of his use of characters settings and dialect that evoked small town life in Indiana. He earned his second moniker "Children's Poet" because of his sympathetic depictions of children and childhood. Riley's writing was not limited to an Indiana audience however. Although Riley's work reflected life in the American Midwest much of his work was as well-received in New York and Boston as it was in Indiana. A journalist by trade and an actor at heart Riley was deeply interested in seeing his work published and performed. He had a long-standing interest in music and allowed many of his verses to be set to music. "A Life-Lesson"--a poem originally published in the Indianapolis Journal July 25 1880 and included in several of Riley's books beginning with his collection Afterwhiles in 1887--was a particularly popular poem to be translated to music with over twenty-five different arrangements published between 1889 and 1919. As a song the poem was retitled "There! Little Girl Don't Cry!" although some composers opted for alternative titles such as "The Silver Lining". Eitel The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley II; A. Russo and D. Russo A Bibliography of James Whitcomb Riley. unknown books

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