APPLIED PHYSICS: Electronics-A History of Divisions 13 and 15 and the Committee on Propagation, NDRC; Optics-A History of Divisions 16 and 17, NDRC; Metallurgy-A History of Division 18/Science in World War II--Office of Scientific Research and Development
by Suits, C. G. (Electronics); Harrison, George R. (Optics); Jordan, Louis (Metallurgy) (Editors)/Compton, Karl T. (Foreword)/Stephenson, H. Kirk and Jones, Edgar L. (Optics)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Good+
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company/An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 1948. 456 pp. Original pale blue cloth covers w/ faint sunning to edges. Spine sunned; ends bumped. Previous owner's name stamp on front blank endpaper; date stamp on rear paste-down. DJ lightly soiled and rubbed w/ wear to edges. Light chipping to spine ends. Date stamp on rear panel. Spine darkened. "Ammunition Data Card" laid-in. Illust. w/ b/w plates.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Shoemaker Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M2249WWII
- Title
- APPLIED PHYSICS: Electronics-A History of Divisions 13 and 15 and the Committee on Propagation, NDRC; Optics-A History of Divisions 16 and 17, NDRC; Metallurgy-A History of Division 18/Science in World War II--Office of Scientific Research and Development
- Author
- Suits, C. G. (Electronics); Harrison, George R. (Optics); Jordan, Louis (Metallurgy) (Editors)/Compton, Karl T. (Foreword)/Stephenson, H. Kirk and Jones, Edgar L. (Optics)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company/An Atlantic Monthly Press Book
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- MILITARY HISTORY WORLD WAR II 1939 1945 SECOND WORLD WAR WWII SCIENCE APPLIED PHYSICS ELECTRONICS OPTICS METALLURGY OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH COMMITTEE WARFARE AMERICAN HISTORY UNITED STATES WORLD HISTORY EURO
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military - WWII; Science;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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