Item 310919Out of My Later Years.
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New York: Philosophical Library, [1950]. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Out of My Later Years Add to Wish List
Item #310919
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New York: Philosophical Library, [1950]. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Out of My Later Years Add to Wish List
Item #310919
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Princeton, New Jersey: 1938. Im Jahre 1837 habe ich ein Affidavit für meine Verwandte, Fräulein Ursula Einstein, ausgestellt. Ich erkläre hiermit, dass ich dieses Affidavit aufrechterhalte und bereit bin, di notwendigen Unterlagen neu zi liefern, wenn es gewünscht wird. den 31. Oktober 1938 [signed] Professor Albert Einstein. (“In the year..... Read More Item Details for Typed Letter, signed (“A. Einstein”), dated 31 October 1938, discussing an affidavit signed Add to Wish List
Item #366717
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[St. Louis]: np, [1873]. Decomposing liquids with Electricity. Casselberry's discovery was a less expensive method of decomposing liquids. He used electricity and during his experiments found that two decomposing cells attached to a galvanic battery or magneto-electric machine will generate twice the gas as a single cell. Prior to Casselberry's..... Read More Item Details for A Discovery in the Science of Electricity Add to Wish List
Item #17254
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Verona: Giannalberto Tumermani, 1747. First edition. Maffei On the Formation of Lightning, 1747. Collection of fifteen letters on the origins of lightning by the enlightened polymath Maffei (1675-1755), "said by Grimelli (Storia) to contain all the anterior letters on Lightning published by him, i.e. all before 1746, the date of..... Read More Item Details for Della Formazione de' Fulmini Trattato del sig. marchese Scipione Maffei, Raccolto da varie sue Lettere, In alcune delle quali si tratta anche degl' Infetti rigenerantisi, e de' Pesci di mare su i monti, e più a lungo dell' Elettricitê Add to Wish List
Item #53510
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London: Saunders and Stanford, 1853. First Edition. Watson patented several galvanic batteries. He was an early advocate of more commercial use of “electrical illumination” with the by-product of fine color pigments. Read More Item Details for A Few Remarks on the Present State and Prospects of Electrical Illumination Add to Wish List
Item #6584
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Glogau [Polland]: Verlag von Carl Flemming, 1864. 8th edition. Railroads and Steamships. Read More Item Details for Karte der Eisenbahnen Mittel-Europa's mit Angabe sämmtlicher Bahnstationen, Hauptpost und Dampfschiffahrts Vergindungen. Entworfen und nach den zuverlUassigsten Quellen bearbeitet von H. Musser Add to Wish List
Item #33077
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London: John Murray, 1829. Second edition. Read More Item Details for CHEMICAL MANIPULATION: being instruction to students in chemistry on the methods of performing experiments of demonstration, or of research, with accuracy and success Add to Wish List
Item #55136
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[ca. 1850]. Faraday (1791-1867) is famous for his discovery of electromagnetic induction and formulation of the laws of electrolysis. Read More Item Details for Clipped Signature ("Your obliged Servant / M. Faraday") Add to Wish List
Item #21574
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New York: Harpoer & Brothers, 1860. First American edition. Read More Item Details for A Course of Six Lectures on the Various Forces of Matter Add to Wish List
Item #332692
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New York: Mooney & Co. 27 Chambers Street, [1881]. Enlarged and Revised. An uncommon history of the Brooklyn Bridge, written during its construction, with ads in the rear for companies that contributed including Roebling. It is most unusual for its use of a color lithographed view as an upper cover..... Read More Item Details for History of the Building of the Great Bridge Add to Wish List
Item #367721
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Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1774. German Ready Reckoner. Early American German ready-reckoner. Read More Item Details for Der Geschwinde Rechner oder Des Händlers nützicher Gehülfe, in Kauffung Add to Wish List
Item #31920
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London: Printed by W. Straham and T. Cadell, 1770. First edition. Read More Item Details for An Introduction to Electricity. In Six Sections Add to Wish List
Item #314544
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Pasadena, California: January to March 1951. One of the earliest printed records of the great educator’s teaching methods. A rare mimeographed set of lecture notes made by students of Richard Feynman very early in his academic career, preceding the famous Lectures on Physics by over a decade. The notes provide..... Read More Item Details for High Energy Phenomena and Meson Theories. Notes on a Course Given... at the California Institute of Technology Add to Wish List
Item #329937
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Lancaster, Pa: May 15, 1817. Read More Item Details for Partly printed slip addressed to Mr. Casper Shaffiner, Jr..."You are desired to meet the Members of the Active Fire Company..." Add to Wish List
Item #228656
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Stuttgart: Cotta, 1756. Read More Item Details for Ordnung für diejenige, welche sich in die in dem Herzogthum Würtemberg gemacht- und von gnädigster Landes-Herrschaft genehmigte allgemeine freywillige Brand-Versicherungs-Gesellschaften begeben wollen Add to Wish List
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New York: Piercy & Co. Printers. No. 72 Bowery, 1831. UNRECORDED. Hook & Ladder Company No. 1 was established during British rule, on July 10, 1772. After many of its volunteer members marched off to fight in the Revolution, it was reorganized in 1784 and given the name “Mutual Hook..... Read More Item Details for By-Laws of Mutual Fire Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 Add to Wish List
Item #319086
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New York: Piercy & Co, 1831. First Edition. UNRECORDED. Read More Item Details for Constitution and By-Laws of Aetna Fire Engine Company No. 16. Passed March 2, 1829 Add to Wish List
Item #319087
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1882. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Story of the Volunteer Fire Department of the City of New York Add to Wish List
Item #55228
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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1911. First Edition. Harriet White Fisher's was the first woman to travel around the world by car, owner after her husband's death of Eagle Steel Works or later, Fisher & Norris, an anvil and vise factory in Trenton, New Jersey. F She shipped her car..... Read More Item Details for A Woman's World Tour in a Motor Add to Wish List
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Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke & Co, 1825. Fifth Edition , with errata slip. Read More Item Details for A System of of Geometry and Trigonometry together with a Treatise on Surveying…with Important Additions by George Gillet, Surveyor General of the State of Connecticut Add to Wish List
Item #24862
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Modena: Antonio Capponi and the heirs of Pontiroli, 1695. First editions. Gaetano Fontana was an Italian priest and astronomer who corresponded with Cassini: in fact, Cassini said that Fontana's obervations were the most exact of all that were sent to him. This is his most famous work. [Bound with:] WARD..... Read More Item Details for Institutio Physico-Astronomica Adiecta in Fine Appendice Geographica Add to Wish List
Item #304745
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Paris: Michel Brunet, 1698. Fourth edition. A defence of the heliocentric model of the solar system, one of the major early works of the Enlightenment. Read More Item Details for Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes Add to Wish List
Item #266792
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Henry Ford II Praises Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Henry Ford's grandson and Chairman of the family firm, writes, “I enjoyed very much sitting for the pictures which you have taken...”. Eisenstaedt's 1955 portrait of Ford appears on page 202 of his WITNESS TO OUR TIME. Read More Item Details for Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt, n.p., November 1955 Add to Wish List
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Chicago: Howell, 1915. Sixth edition. Read More Item Details for Funabout Fords Add to Wish List
Item #322835
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London: Published by Printed for David Henry, and sold by Francis Newbery, 1769; London: [William Bowyer], 1764. The fourth edition, being the first collected edition and by far most desirable edition, containing for the first time complete notes on all the experiments, as well as correspondence between Peter Collinson, Franklin..... Read More Item Details for Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America. To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects. The Whole Corrected, Methodized, Improved and Now First Collected into one volume ... [Bound with:] A letter from Mr. Benjamin Wilson, F. R. S. and Member of the Royal Academy at Upsal, to Mr. Aepinus, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg, and Member of the Academies of Berlin, Stochholm, and Erfurth. Read at the Royal Society December 23, 1763, and March 1764 Add to Wish List
Item #339652