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Physiologie Des Mouvements D�Montr�E a L�Aide De L�Exp�Rimenatation �Lectrique Et De L�Observation Clinique Et Applicable a L�Etude Des Paralysies Et Des Deformations
by Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne De Boulogne
Electricity Books & Ephemera
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 Linda Simon
by Simon, Linda
Orlando : Harcourt, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 357 pages; Description: 357 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-345) and index. Subjects: Electricity --Social aspects --History --19th century. Summary: The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. But in 1879, Americans reacted to the...
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SGD 16.46
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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SGD 2,412.72
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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SGD 689.35
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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SGD 344.68
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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SGD 100.42
The Adelaide Electric Supply Company Limited. Fifty Years of Progress. Being a History of the Foundations and Development of the Company 1896-1946
by Wakelin, D
Adelaide: The Adelaide Electric Supply Company Limited. 1947. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good in original navy-blue cloth with gilt lettering. No dustjacket. Very slight offsetting to endpapers. Illustrated with monochrome plates. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Slight mothball odour. 182 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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SGD 45.06
Experimental Researches in Electricity
by Faraday, Michael
Dover Pubns, 2004. Paperback. New. 336 pages. 8.75x5.50x1.00 inches.
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SGD 60.71
Essai sur le méchanisme de l'electricité et l'utilité que l'on peur tirer pour guérison de quelques maladies
by MOLENIER, Jacob
Bordeaux,: F. Sejourne,, 1768.. 108 pp. Small 4to (12 x 19 cm.). Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt decorated (partly stained, sides rubbed, top and bottom of spine damaged, title label gone), Finely printed on strong paper. With several woodcut headers and footers, text printed within a typographical border. ¶ First edition, very rare. Not in Wheeler nor in the NLM. Molenier, a quack avant la lettre was "Médecin privilégié du Roi & Inspecteur général...
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SGD 435.71
Autograph letter signed to Latimer Clark
by Rowland, Owen
Kentish New Town, 1861. Rowland, Owen. Autograph letter signed to Latimer Clark (1822-98). Kentish New Town, 5 August 1861. 4pp. 179 x 113 mm. Traces of former mounting, 2 holes punched in upper margin (not affecting text), but very good. To telegraph engineer Latimer Clark, involved in the development and construction of submarine cables, including the Atlantic Cable. Rowland worked with Clark on developing insulation materials for submarine cables. In this letter Rowland discusses an antimony alloy he...
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SGD 654.88
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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SGD 45.68
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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SGD 172.34
Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Third Series" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 140 for the Year 1850 Part I, pp. 171-188)
by Faraday, Michael
London: Royal Society of London, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Also see our #27486 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplemental Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series, #27489 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Fifteenth Series" (pp. 1-12), #27495 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eighteenth Series" (pp. 17-32), & #27500 "Experimental Researches in Electricity --...
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SGD 1,034.02
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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SGD 129.60
Traité des Maladies de Poitrine et du Coeur. Phthisie pulmonaire, Catarrhe, Asthme, Scrofules et des Affections nerveuses, Gastralgies, Rhumatisme, Paralysies, etc. Suivid de Nombreux cas d'observations de guérison avec des recherches sur les Courant Electriques continus Considérés comme un des agents thérapeutique les plus efficases dans le traitement de ces affections... Cinquième Edition
by TIRAT, Joseph E
Paris,: L'Auteur & G.-A. Baillière,, 1858.. viii, 424, [12 cat. d'éditeur] pp. 8vo (14,5 x 22,5 cm.). Nicely bound in half roan, sipine gilt letterd, marbled boards and end-papers. Rare, only one copy in the WorldCat.-- (Some scattered light foxing; lower margin of the first two leaves slightly damaged).
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SGD 94.40
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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SGD 827.22
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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Electric Railways and Tramways, their Construction and Operation. A Practical Handbook, setting forth at length the modern application of Electricity as a Motive Power for Railways and Tramways; containing Complete Financial and Engineering Data as to Design, Construction, Equipment and Working; fully illustrating all modern and accepted types of Machinery and Apparatus; and describing in detail the principal installations of Europe and America
by Dawson, Philip
London: Offices of "Engineering", 1897. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1-41, [adverts], xxvi, errata page, 677pp, photos, diagrams, modern green cloth binding. Ex- public reference library with several stamps but in very good condition. Revised, enlarged and brought up to date from articles in "Engineering" magazine. Heavy book - additional shipping charges will be added if sent overseas..
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SGD 258.72
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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A Letter to Mr. Benjamin Wilson, F.R.S. concerning Electricity
by Mr. Thorbern Bergman
This paper, A Letter to Mr. Benjamin Wilson, F.R.S. concerning Electricity; from Mr. Thorbern Bergman is written in Latin and was first read before the Royal Society on November 20, 1760. The paper seems to discuss a correlation between electricity and the aurora borealis, although someone competent in Latin may find other meanings in the text. As an example, the first sentence of the paper, when translated to English, reads "Do not threaten, Most Famous Man, that I, devoted to physics, seek your...
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SGD 68.94
THE ELECTRIC CURRENT INSTRUCTION PAPER
by American School of Correspondence
Boston: A. S. C.. Good. 1901. pamphlet. Covers stained. ; 8vo; 48 pages .
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SGD 10.96
