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1966 in-4 br., Du suicide, au sommaire, F. JEANSON, P. DAIX, Ph. de SAINT-ROBERT, R. NELLI, P. BOUTANG, Docteur G. FERDIÈRE, M. SUFFRAN, R. GRENIER, J. CABANIS, etc., en tête de volume le manifeste de la revue signée B. MANCIET, W. BERNINET, tirage limité 220 ex., celui-ci non justifié, bande conservée
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Résultats obtenus dans les essais d'applications industrielles de la chaleaur solaire. [In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome LXXXI (No.14)]. - [THE SOLAR GENERATOR]
(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1875. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 81, No 14. [Mouchot's paper:] Pp. 571-574. (Entire issue offered). (1), 546-604 pp. Clean and fine.
First printing of the paper in which Mouchot presents his seminal solar generator. Auguste Mouchot was a French mathematics teacher, who in the 1860'ies became famous as the designer (and patent-taker) of the first machine that generated electricity with solar thermal energy electricity by the exposure of the sun. Mouchot began his work with solar energy in 1860 after expressing grave concerns about his country's dependence on coal. His work on solar energy and on the development of his sun machine forms the basis for the later developments on solar energy. ""The work of Adams, Ericsson, and Shuman had been directly influenced by the solar conceptions of Augustin Mouchot, a man who arrived on the scene in nineteenth century France at precisely that moment when his ideas were likely to attract the most attention. It was a time when French industrial might was at a peak and her leaders open to new ideas, none more so than her emperor. In 1867, to commemorate the explosion of technology that had accompanied the industrial and artistic carnival over which he had presided for 15 years, France's Napoleon III decided to invite the whole world to an international exposition that he would host in Paris."" (Kryza, The Power of Light, p. 147). ""His initial experiments involved a glass-enclosed, water-filled iron cauldron, in which sunlight passed through a glass cover, heating the water. This simple arrangement boiled water, but it also produced small quantities of steam. Mouchot added a reflector to concentrate additional radiation onto the cauldron, thus increasing the steam output. He succeeded in using his apparatus to operate a small, conventional steam engine. Impressed by Mouchot's device, Emperor Napoleon III offered financial assistance, which Mouchot used to produce refinements to the energy system. Mouchot's work help lay the foundation for our current understanding of the conversion of solar radiation into mechanical power driven by steam.The publication of his book on solar energy, ""La Chaleur solaire et ses Applications industrielles"" (1869), coincided with the unveiling of the largest solar steam engine he had yet built. This engine was displayed in Paris until the city fell under siege during the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, and was not found after the siege ended.In September 1872, Mouchout received financial assistance from the General Council of Indre-et-Loire to install an experimental solar generator at the Tours library. He presented a paper on the generator to the Academy of Sciences on 4 October 1875, and in December of the same year he presented to the Academy a device he claimed would, in optimal sunshine, provide a steam flow of 140 liters per minute. (The Energy Library).Mouchot is the first author to write explicitly about solar energy and how to convert solar radiation into usable energy, thus laying the foundation for what we now call ""green energy"".
Carl Spitteler. Essai suivi d'un choix de fragments en traduction originale. Prix des Essais. Collection 1938. No 53 - 5 Mai.
Bruxelles, Les Cahiers du Journal des Poètes, 1938, 8° (19,5 x 14 cm), 110 pp., 1 f., 1 pl. (portrait), 2 fac-similés in texte, broché, couverture originale imprimée.
Edition originale. Un de 300 exemplaires non numérotés sur papier Featherweight léger (3e papier après 350 ex. numérotés). Envoi de l'auteur, daté 1938, sur la page de garde. Fin portrait de l'écrivain suisse allemand Carl Spitteler (1845 - 1924), lauréat du prix Nobel de littérature en 1919 : Rencontre de l'homme. Profil du poète. Position du penseur. Fragments des oeuvres épiques de Spitteler traduits de l'allemand par Ch. Baudoin. Charles Baudoin (1893 - 1963), écrivain, poète, journaliste et psychanalyste franco-suisse. Il a essayé de combiner les théories de S. Freud, C. G. Jung et A. Adler pour une nouvelle approche psychanalytique.
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