Category: Electricity

Elektromagnetische Theorie der Strahlung.

By: ABRAHAM, Max (1875-1922).

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Leipzig:, B.G. Teubner, 1905. : 1905

Seller ID: BL3804

Series: Theorie der Elektrizitat, 2. 8vo. X, 404 pp. 5 figs., index. Blue cloth, black stamping. Very good. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: ?Dem unermudlichen Erpaher der Latz-und Stye-Fehler gewidmet[?] vom Verfasser." Relative to Maxwell's theory of electricity. Abraham was a German physicist, studied at the University of Berlin under Max Planck, becoming his assistant. His work took him to the University of Illinois, Italy, back to Stuttgart, Germany and finally to Aachen. He died of a brain tumor in 1922 at just 47 years of age.
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A History of Electricity.

By: BENJAMIN, Park.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York:, Arno Press, 1975. : 1975

Seller ID: S9092

8vo. 611 pp. Figs., index. Gilt-stamped green cloth. Originally published in 1895 under another title. Fine.
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Calcul des petits transformateurs.

By: BEYAERT, R.

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Paris:, Dunod, 1954. : 1954

Seller ID: S2151

240 x 155 mm. 8vo. xix, 397 pp. Figs., tables. Maroon cloth, gilt spine; end-leaves browned. Ownership blind stamp. Very good.
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"Experimentell-technische Vorbereitungen zur Atomzertrummerung mittels hoher elektrischer Spannungen."

By: BRASCH, Arno & Fritz LANGE.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: In:, Zeitschrift fur Physik, Vol. 70, 1931. : 1931

Seller ID: S5531

232 x 157 mm. 8vo. Pages 10-37. [Entire volume: vii, [1 blank], 832 pp.] 14 figs. Navy cloth, gilt spine; lightly rubbed, spine with two small gouges. Blind-stamp of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Mount Wilson Observatory. Very good. FIRST EDITION of this report on a project begun in 1927 at the Physikalisches Institut der Universitat Berlin of using atmospheric electricity as a high voltage source. This was at the beginning of the efforts to create high voltage sources. The photographs of the electrical equipment in this article are quite remarkable; in one photograph a man is dwarf...
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The Electrical Researches of the Honourable Henry Cavendish. Edited by J. Clerk Maxwell.

By: CAVENDISH, Henry.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: (London):, Frank Cass, 1967. : 1967

Seller ID: S11059

"New impression of the first edition." 8vo. lxvi, 454 pp. Gilt-stamped red cloth; spine slightly faded, tipped-in label fragment at ffe. Bookplate, ex-library stamp verso title page. Very good. First Edition.
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Image for Further observations on voltaic combinations. In a letter addressed to Michael Faraday. . .. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCXXXVII, Vol. 127, Part I [with Part II].

Further observations on voltaic combinations. In a letter addressed to Michael Faraday. . .. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCXXXVII, Vol. 127, Part I [with Part II].

By: DANIELL, John Frederic (1790-1845).

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London:, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1837. : 1837

Seller ID: S4144

Two parts in one volume. 304 x 242 mm. 4to. Pages 141-160. [Entire volume: x, [2], (1)-178, [4]; vi, (179)-258, 347-363, [1 blank], 427-446, [4] pp.] Tables, 1 engraved plate. Early green cloth (ca. 1909), printed paper spine label, original plain blue wrappers to Part I bound in; lightly rubbed, head of spine chipped. Bookplate of the Plainfield Public Library, Plainfield, New Jersey, rubber stamps on edges. SIGNED "Dr. Olbers, Bremen" in ink on original top wrapper. Very good. Further letter from Daniell to Faraday (Wheeler lists six letters, 1836-1842) in which Daniell presents his battery...
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Image for On voltaic combinations. In a letter addressed to Michael Faraday. . .. with: Additional observations on voltaic combinations. In a letter addressed to Michael Faraday. . .. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCXXXVI, Vol. 126, Part I.

On voltaic combinations. In a letter addressed to Michael Faraday. . .. with: Additional observations on voltaic combinations. In a letter addressed to Michael Faraday. . .. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCXXXVI, Vol. 126, Part I.

By: DANIELL, John Frederic (1790-1845).

Price: $225.00

Publisher: London:, Richard Taylor, 1836. : 1836

Seller ID: S4143

304 x 242 mm. 4to. Pages 107-124; 125-129. [Entire volume: xii, (1)-20, 49-215, [1 blank], [4], 571-616 pp.] Tables in the first article; 2 engraved plates accompany the second article. Early green cloth (ca. 1909), printed paper spine label, original plain blue wrappers bound in; lightly rubbed. Bookplate of the Plainfield Public Library, Plainfield, New Jersey, rubber stamps on edges. Very good. "Research in the new field of current electricity was at this time hindered by the rapid decline in power of the voltaic cell when in use, because of 'reverse polarization.' Investigating the standa...
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The Atlantic Cable.

By: DIBNER, Bern.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Tokyo:, Ocean Cable, 1997. : 1997

Seller ID: S11312

Japanese-language edition of 1956 edition. (Norwalk, CT: Burndy Library), n.d. 4to. 68 pp. With reproduction of title-page and original illustrations, folding map, bibliography. Original printed wrappers; top front edge slightly nicked. Burndy Library bookplate. Near fine. [Japanese text only].
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De Fibrae Muscularis Reactione Ut Chemicis Visa Est Acida. Commentatio qua ad audiendam praelectionem, pro loco in facultate medica, rite obtinendo Die XXVI. Mensis Martii Hora I.

By: DU BOIS-REYMOND, Emil (1818-1896).

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Berolini:, Georgium Reimer, 1859. : 1859

Seller ID: M13100

4to. 43, [1] pp. Early plain brown wrappers. Ownership embossed stamp on title. Very good. Scarce. First Edition of the author's lecture that proved tetanized muscle yields an acid reaction. "These observations may have played a part in his discovery of glycogen in muscle a few years later. Du Bois-Reymond in 1859 recorded that fresh resting muscle had a neutral or slightly alkaline reaction, which changed to an acid reaction on activity or death." ? Dorothy M. Needham, Machina Carnis; The Biochemistry of Muscular Contraction in its Historical Development, Cambridge University Press 1971, p....
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Briefe von der Elektrizitat; Ubersetzt und mit Anmerkungen Versehen von Carl Wilcke; Eingeleitet und Erlautert von John Heilbron.

By: FRANKLIN, Benjamin.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Braunschweig:, Vieweg, (1983). : 1983

Seller ID: RH1267

ISBN-13: 9783528085292

[Facsimile of 1751 E. Cave edition of Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America, by Mr. Benjamin Franklin, and Communicated in several Letters to Mr. P. Collinson of London, F. R. S.] 8vo. li, 136 pp. Illus., index. Black stamped gray cloth, dust jacket. Fine. RARE. ISBN: 3528085290 Dust jacket present.
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Il «Taccuin ».

By: GALVANI, Luigi.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Fabriano:, Arti Grafiche «Gentil », 1998. : 1998

Seller ID: BL3717

Reprint of the 1937 edition of Galvani's manuscript, "a notebook of Galvani's investigations into torpedoes in the mid-1790's" (DSB V: 269). 12mo. [vi], xxv pp. 68 ff. [facsimile of MS.], 41, [2] pp. Original gilt-stamped gray cloth. Fine. Burndy bookplate. Scarce. Limited edition of 1000 copies.
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Memorie sulla Elettricita Animale; al celebre abate Lazzaro Spallanzani. Aggiunte alcune elettriche esperienze di Giovanni Aldini.

By: GALVANI, Luigi.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Roma:, Theoria, 1983. : 1983

Seller ID: S12987

8vo. 184 pp. Figs., index. Printed wrappers. Very good.
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Materiem Elektrizitat Energie die Entwicklung der Atomistik in den Letzten zehn Jahren.

By: GERLACH, Walther (1889-1979).

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Dresden & Leipzig:, Theodor Steinkopff, 1923. : 1923

Seller ID: BL4372

Series: Wissenschaftliche Forschungsberichte; Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe . . .Band VII. 8vo. 195 pp. Original printed orange wrappers; heavily worn, chipped. Ownership signature of Hermann Loventhal. Working copy only, as is. Gerlach was a German physicist worked at the University of Frankfurt, who co-discovered spin quantization in a magnetic field, the Stern-Gerlach effect.
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On the specific resistance of mercury. Extract from: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. (A.) For the year MDCCCLXXXVIII, Volume 179.

By: GLAZEBROOK, Richard Tetley (1854-1935) & T. C. FITZPATRICK.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London:, Harrison & Sons, 1889. : 1889

Seller ID: S4178

297 x 233 mm. 4to. Pages 351-376. 3 figs., 11 tables, 1 lithographic plate. Dis-bound. Richard Glazebrook performed important experimental research in the field of the precise measurement of electrical standards, but his true vocation was scientific administration. Glazebrook was the Director of the National Physical Laboratory at Bush House, Teddington. DNB, 1931-1940, pp. 843-844; DSB, V, pp. 423-424.
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Absolute Measurements in Electricity and Magnetism. Second edition rewritten and extended.

By: GRAY, Andrew.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London:, Macmillan, 1921. : 1921

Seller ID: S11651

8vo. xix, 837 pp. Small ex-library rubber stamp on final leaf of index, white call number painted on spine; bookplate of Alan E. Shapiro. Very good. Scarce. Gray (1847-1925) Scottish physicist and mathematician; in 1896 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society; succeeded Kelvin at Glasgow as Professor of Natural Philosophy
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The Bakerian Lecture. - On certain phenomena of voltaic ignition and the decomposition of water into its constituent gases by heat. with: Supplementary paper on certain phenomena of voltaic ignition, and the decomposition of water into its constituent gases by heat. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the year MDCCCXLVII, Part I [Part II].

By: GROVE, Sir William Robert (1811-1896).

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London:, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1847. : 1847

Seller ID: S4187

302 x 240 mm. 4to. Pages (1)-16; 17-21. [Entire volume: x, [2], (1)-117, [1 blank]; [vi], (119)-229, [1 blank], 249-266, 12 pp.] 1 lithographic plate. Early green cloth (ca. 1909), printed paper spine label; lightly rubbed, foot of spine chipped. Bookplate of the Plainfield Public Library, Plainfield, New Jersey, rubber stamps on edges. Very good. This paper contains remarks on the theory of Theodor Grotthus (1785-1722), the spheroidal state, and decomposition of water by white hot platinum. In 1847 Grove was awarded the Royal Medal for his paper "On the gas voltaic battery" and his Bakerian ...
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The Bakerian Lecture. - Inquiries concerning elementary laws of electricity.

By: HARRIS, Sir William Snow (1791-1867).

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London:, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1839. : 1839

Seller ID: S4189

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 conduct...
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"Versuche zur Feststellung einer oberen Grenze fur die kinetische Energie der electrischen Stromung."

By: HERTZ, Heinrich Rudolf (1857-1894).

Price: $300.00

Publisher: In: Annalen der Physik, Neue Folge, Band X, 1880. Leipzig:, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1880. : 1880

Seller ID: S6312

8vo. Pages 414-448. [Entire volume: viii, 696 pp.] Tables. Quarter cloth, cloth tips, paste-paper over boards, gilt spine; rubbed. Ex library ms. paper spine label, rubber stamps. Very good. FIRST EDITION. As a student in Berlin, Heinrich Hertz noticed an announcement of a prize offered by the Berlin Philosophical Faculty for the solution of an experimental problem concerning electrical inertia. Helmholtz, who had proposed the problem and had great interest in its solution, provided Hertz with a room in his Physical Institute and directed him to literature on the problem. Hertz showed himself...
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Electric Waves being researches on the propagation of electric action with finite velocity through space. Authorized English translation by D. E. Jones with a preface by Lord Kelvin.

By: HERTZ, Heinrich Rudolf (1857-1894).

Price: $850.00

Publisher: London:, Macmillan & Co., 1900. : 1900

Seller ID: S11331

8vo . xv, 278 pp. 40 figs., numerous formulae & charts, index. Modern full navy morocco, raised bands, gilt-stamped spine title, t.e.g. Fine. SECOND EDITION IN ENGLISH of Untersuchungen uber die Ausbreitung der elektrischen Kraft. "Hertz was the first to demonstrate experimentally that electromagnetic waves radiate in space at the speed of light, just as Maxwell had predicted in his Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Hertz determined that electromagnetic waves were longer than light waves and showed that they were in complete correspondence with the waves of light and heat in the transver...
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Magnetic control of industrial motors.

By: HEUMANN, Gerhart W.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York:, John Wiley & Sons; London: Chapman & Hall, 1947. : 1947

Seller ID: S2213

General Electric Series. 236 x 156 mm. 8vo. ix, 589 pp. 365 figs., index; pages brittle (war-time paper). Green cloth. Ownership signature, ownership blind stamp on half-title removed some paper. Very good. The author was part of the Control Engineering Division, Apparatus Dept., General Electric Company. The text deals with all aspects of the design and description of electrical circuitry to industrial motors. Numerous photos and drawings support the text.
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Category: Electricity