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Dark Light
by Simon, Linda
The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. But in 1879, Americans reacted to the advent of electrification with suspicion and fear. Forty years after Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb, only 20 percent of American families had wired their homes. Meanwhile, electrotherapy emerged as a popular medical treatment for everything from depression to digestive problems. Why did Americans welcome electricity into their bodies even as they kept it from...
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Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray
by Simon, Linda
Orlando, Florida: Harcourt, Inc, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x1x8. First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 2004 Hard Cover. 357 pp. "The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. But in 1879, Americans reacted to the advent of electrification with suspicion and fear. Forty years after Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb, only 20 percent of American families had wired their homes. Meanwhile,...
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$12.00
Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray
by Simon, Linda
Mariner Books, 2005. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$7.84
Autograph letter signed to O. Becker
by Cooke, Josiah Parsons
1870. Very Good. Cooke, Josiah Parsons (1827-94). A.L.s. to O. Becker. Cambridge, Mass., February 21, 1870. 3- pp. 206 x 126 mm. Traces of mounting on verso of second leaf. Provenance: Latimer Clark. Cooke, the founder of Harvard University's chemistry department, here writes to an instrument maker regarding a shipment of prisms, and about the manufacture of some resistance coils about which "Sir William Thompson [sic] . . . has communicated with you. . . . Please make the coils according to his...
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$250.00
Autograph letter signed to Latimer Clark
by Tait, Peter Guthrie
1868. Very Good. Tait, Peter Guthrie (1831-1901). Autograph letter signed to [Josiah] Latimer Clark (1822-98). Edinburgh, July 27, 1868. 2 pp. 178 x 114 mm. Remains of mounting on blank verso of last page. Very good. From mathematician and physicist Peter Guthrie Tait, professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh and co-author (with William Thomson) of the classic Treatise on Natural Philosophy (1867), a work that helped to define the modern discipline of physics. Tait's correspondent, Latimer Clark,...
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$850.00
Autograph letter signed to Latimer Clark
by Ayrton, William Edward
1873. Very Good. Japan's Telegraphic System Ayrton, William Edward (1847-1908). A.L.s. to Latimer Clark. Tokyo, March 2, n.y. [between 1873 and 1878]. 7pp. 155 x 101 mm. Provenance: Latimer Clark. Ayrton, a pupil of Sir William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), was a noted physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, and technical educator; his wife was the physicist Hertha Ayrton, best known for her investigations of the electric arc and of sand ripples. For five years Ayrton served as professor of physics...
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$600.00
Autograph letter signed, probably to Latimer Clark
by Rijke, Pieter Leonhard, Baron
1865. Very Good. Rijke, Pieter Leonhard, Baron (1812-1901). A.L.s. to an unidentified correspondent, probably Latimer Clark. Leiden, August 13, 1865. 3pp. 214 x 137 mm. Remains of mounting present. Provenance: Latimer Clark. Rijke published several memoirs on electricity in the Philosophical Magazine. His letter concerns several pieces of scientific equipment that he wanted his correspondent to send him, including lenses and cells made from rock salt. He mentions that he had previously obtained rock...
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$375.00
Autograph letter signed to Latimer Clark
by Bright, Charles Tilston
London, 1861. Very Good. Bright, Charles Tilston (1832-88). A.L.s. to Latimer Clark. London, January 31, 1861. 2pp. 178 x 110 mm. Remains of mounting on verso of second leaf. Provenance: Latimer Clark. Bright was engineer-in-chief of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, formed by himself, Cyrus Field, George Saward, and J. W. Brett in 1856 for the purpose of manufacturing and laying the first transatlantic cable. Bright superintended the laying of the first complete Atlantic telegraph cable in 1858,...
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$500.00
Electricity as a Medicine, and Its Mode of Application
by Ives, John, M. D
New York: John T. Ives, Jr., 1879. Hard Cover. Very Good. 123 pages. Small 8vo. Brick red covers with black and gilt embossed decorations (and blank spine as issued). An exlibrary copy (properly deaccessioned) with bookplate on front pastedown endpaper and unobtrusive stamp to title page. Soiling to the page edges from reading, but a solid reading copy. Includes a history of the field, some illustrated instruments, and many application examples. Hard Cover.
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$94.00
Alternating - Current Circuits
by Kerchner Russell M. , George F. Corcoran
John Wiley & Sons. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1955. Cloth. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering to the spine. This copy is in very good + condition with some spine end and corner bumping. Very well bound with a bright , unmarked text. There are some notes on the front free end paper. There is a 25 page insert, "Answers to Problems in Alternating-Current Circuits" neatly stapled to the back paste down. A heavy copy. ; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 509...
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$33.44
The Marginal Cost and Pricing of Electricity: An Applied Approach
by Cicchetti, Charles J.; Gillen, Willliam J. & Smolensky, Paul
Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1977. 1st printing; dj in mylar; ownr's name neatly inked out on flyleaf; brown c w/gilt sp;ine titles; 293 clean, unmaked pages/idex. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Charts, Graphs, Etc. 8 Vo.
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$125.00
Autograph letter to Elliot Brothers
by Jacobi, Moritz Hermann von
1871. Very Good. Jacobi, Moritz Hermann von (1801-74). A.L. to Elliot Brothers. St. Petersburg, "8/20 July," 1871. 1 page plus integral blank leaf. 129 x 101 mm. Remains of mounting present. Provenance: Latimer Clark. Jacobi, a German-born physicist, spent most of his career at the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg, where he performed researches on electricity and its applications. He built one of the first practical electric motors in 1834, and in 1839 invented an electromagnetic...
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$600.00
One Man's Full Life
by Earl E. Bakken
Medtronic, Inc., 1999. Hardcover. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$5.99
Experimental Researches in Electricity
by FARADAY, MICHAEL
London: Richard and John Edward Taylor, 1839. First edition. Original cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL CLOTH OF ALL THREE VOLUMES OF FARADAY'S MONUMENTAL EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES IN ELECTRICITY, THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE RECORD OF HIS ACHIEVEMENTS. PMM 308. "Faraday was both one of the greatest physicists of the nineteenth century and one of the finest experimenters of all time... He was the first to produce an electric current from a magnetic field, invented the first electric motor...
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$7,800.00
Autograph letter signed to Latimer Clark
by Matthiessen, Augustus
1872. Very Good. Matthiessen, Augustus (1831-70). A.L.s. to Latimer Clark. [London], December 19, 1872. 1- pp.178 x 112 mm. Small hole punched in upper margin. Provenance: Latimer Clark. Matthiessen, a chemist and physicist, performed studies of the electrical conductivity of copper in connection with the telegraph, which are alluded to in his letter: "Would you kindly inform me what is the maximum conducting power of the copper you can get in large quantities from the drawers? I think it will shortly...
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$275.00
Experimental Researches in Electricity
by Michael Faraday
Paperback / softback. New. In the 1820s and 1830s, Michael Faraday (1791-1867) undertook crucial work in electromagnetism which forms the basis of modern electromagnetic technology. In the third of this three-volume collection of his papers, published between 1839 and 1855, Faraday presents his notes on other equally brilliant investigations, including his landmark work on the effect of magnetism on light.
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$73.76
Autograph letter signed to Charles Bright and Latimer Clark
by Matthiessen, Augustus
1865. Very Good. Matthiessen, Augustus (1831-70). A.L.s. to Charles Tilston Bright and Latimer Clark. [London], April 20, 1865. 1- pp. 176 x 112 mm. Small holes in lower corner, tremains of mounting present. Provenance: Latimer Clark. Between 1862 and 1865 Matthiessen participated in the British Association's Electrical Standards Committee. His letter mentions some of the standard units that he manufactured in 1865 for the committee: "They are made of the Platinum silver alloys and are adjusted to 0.01...
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$250.00
First Steps in Electricity
by Harrison, Jerome
Chicago: Henneberry Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1901. Hardcover. Small book in green decorated cloth covers with silver lettering and illustration of electric motor. Interesting illustrations accompany the text. This is a volume in the publisher's "The Applied Science Series." A nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings.; B&W Illustrations; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 95 pages .
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$24.95
Something about telegraph cables. Manuscript (20pp.)
by Gibson, Henry H
1876. Gibson, Henry H. Something about telegraph cables. A paper read before the Hornsea Mutual Improvement Society. Autograph manuscript signed. N.p., 1876 (date supplied in a different hand). [20]ff., stapled at the top. 318 x 203 mm. Right margins a little frayed. Gibson was a member of the shipbuilding family that founded the firm of Edward Gibson & Son in Hull, Yorkshire; he was also vice president of the Mutual Improvement Society in Hornsea, a town on the Yorkshire seacoast connected to Hull by...
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$1,750.00
Experimental Researches in Electricity: v. 1 & 2 in 1v. & v. 3
by Faraday, Michael
New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1966. New edition. New edition.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Other than library markings, there are NO MARKINGS in these books.. 2 volume set. Product in slip-cased set. 592 p. Three volumes in two books. Two books will ship (Vols 1-3).
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$60.00$51.00
Electrical Engineering for Mining Students
by Harvey, G.M
London: Sir Isaac Pitman, 1926. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 156pp, diagrams, presentation label inside front board, d/w (in removable protective plastic sleeve) worn with loss at edges..
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$19.00
Autograph letter signed to Latimer Clark
by Alexander, James
Very Good. Alexander, James. A.L.s. to Latimer Clark (1822-98). Dumfries [Scotland,] August 19, 1873. 4pp. 179 x 117 mm. Provenance: Latimer Clark. An invitation to Clark to visit, issued in conjunction with Alexander's forthcoming "electrical exhibit." In the postscript, Alexander asks Clark whether he shall "require any batteries from Sir W[illiam] Thomson for his artificial cable." Origins of Cyberspace 112. .
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$250.00
The Standard Electrical Dictionary
by SLOANE, T. O'Conor
London: Henley & Co, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good Hardcover. Book has minor wear of spine ends and cover corners, fading covers, cracking hinges, tear across entire page 1" from bottom front endpaper. Clean text. All pages still tightly bound.
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$185.00
Electrical Laboratory Experiments: Theory And Practice, Being An Abridgment Of Experimental Electrical Engineering
by Karapetoff Vladimir, Dennison Boyd C
New York: John Wiley & Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1953. Hardcover. Red hardcovers with gilt lettering on the spine. In very good++ condition. /bumping to the spine ends and back top corner, & light edgewear. Small piece cut off of the top of the title page, a very clean & unmarked interior. ; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 487 pages .
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$31.74
