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"GROVE, WILLIAM ROBERT. - IONIZATION OF GASES - DISCOVERING STRIAE.
Reference : 46545
(1852)
On the Electro-Chemical Polarity of Gases. Received January 7, - Read April 1, 1852.
(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1852). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1852 - Part I. Pp. 87-101 and 1 plate. The plate with a faint dampstain.
First appearance of the paper in which Grove describes his discovery of striae, the dark bands that occur in electrical breakdown. ""Grove was the first to study what became known as ""sputtering"" although others had observed the effect while studying glow discharges. Grove used a tip of wire as the coating source and sputtered a deposit onto a highly polished silver surface held close to the wire at a pressure of about 0.5 Torr. He noted a coating on the silver surface when it was made the anode and the wire the cathode of an electrical circuit.(History of PVD Coatings).Schiers & Schiers ""Early Television"" No. 18.
Corrélation des forces physiques.
Paris, A. Tramblay, Leiber et Commelin, 1856 1 volume In-8° (12,5 x 22,2cm) Reliure demi-basane vert foncé; dos lisse à 6 bandes de filets à froid et 4 fleurons dorés, auteur et titre dorés. 1faux-titre, IX + 343p. Reliure frottée, rousseurs.
1ère édition française de la traduction, par l'abbé MOIGNO, du principal ouvrage du physicien anglais William-Robert GROVE (1811-1896) sur sa 3è édition anglaise, de 1856; suivie de "Réflexions et annotations" de Marc SEGUIN (SEGUIN ainé), et de notes et renvois: idées qui avaient fait l'objet d'une leçon à l'Institut de Londres en 1842, puis développées dans des lectures en 1843, et qui furent consignées par l'auteur dans cet ouvrage publié en 1848.
"GROVE, WILLIAM ROBERT. - THE FIRST FUELL CELL DESCRIBED BY THE ""FATHER OF THE FUELL CELL""
Reference : 46461
(1847)
The Bakerian Lecture. - On certain Phenomena of Voltaic Ignition and the Decomposition of Water into its constituent Gases by Heat. Received September 3, - Read November 19, 1846. (+) Supplementary Paper on certain Phenomena of Voltaic Ignition, and t...
(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1847). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1847 - Part I. Pp. 1-16 a. pp. 17-21 and 1 lithographed plate
First appearance of an importent paper in which Grove describes and depicts his invention - from 1839 - of the first FUEL CELL, which he named ""The Gas Voltaic Battery"", and where he applied his anticipation of the principle of ""Conservation of Energy"" to the decomposition of water. and to the ignition of the released gases.In 1846, Grove published ""On The Correlation of Physical Forces"" in which he anticipated the general theory of the conservation of energy that was more famously put forward in Hermann von Helmholtz' Über die Erhaltung der Kraft (On the Conservation of Force) published the following year.His 1846 Bakerian lecture relied heavily on his theory.(The paper offered).During the early 1960s, General Electric produced the fuel-cell-based electrical power system for NASA's Gemini and Apollo space capsules. General Electric used the principles found in the ""Bacon Cell"" as the basis of its design. Today, the Space Shuttle's electricity is provided by fuel cells, and the same fuel cells provide drinking water for the crew.NASA decided that using nuclear reactors was too high a risk, and using batteries or solar power was too bulky to use in space vehicles. NASA has funded more than 200 research contracts exploring fuel-cell technology, bringing the technology to a level now viable for the private sector
