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Leçons élémentaires d'électricité ou exposition concise des principes généraux de l électricité et de ses applications,traduites et annotés par E.GARNAULT,
LACROIX E.,sans date (1865), in-12,reliure demi basane 264pp, figures in-t,
dos frotté,abimé,rousseurs eparses;
Leçons elementaires d'electricite ou exposition concise des principes generaux de l'electricite et de ses applications
Paris, Librairie Scientifique, Industrielle et Agricole, Eugène Lacroix, non daté (mais un cahier en fin de volume donne les dernières nouvautés de la bibliothèque Lacroix, il est daté de novembre 1865) . In-12° broché de 264+36 pages. Tres bon etat.
Three experimental Illustrations of a General Law of electrical Discharge.
(London, around 1830 ?). 4to. Original violet blank wrappers, later clothbacked. Edges gilt. Wrappers slightly soiled. 16 pp. including 3 plates with leaves of gold on the plates showing the effects of the electrical discharge through various arrangements of the gold as the gold imitates metallic conductors fixed along the masts of ships.
Extremely scarce. The work relates further experiments as did the authors famous work ""Observations on the Effects of Lightning on floating Bodies..."" 1823, as it contains 2 more plates with leaves of gold, showing the ways of the electrical discharge.In 1835 he received the Copley gold medal from the Royal Society for his papers on the laws of electricity of high tension, and in 1839 he was chosen to deliver the Bakerian lecture.In 1820, William Snow Harris invented a system of fixed lightning conductor plates which were routed along the aft side of the mast down through the hull to the copper sheathing on the bottom of the ship. Harris spent the next twenty-five years trying to persuade the British Admiralty to test his system and require its installation. For years, old prejudices against lightning conductors, notions of economy, and bureaucratic suspicions of technological innovation frustrated his efforts. It took a successful trial installation on eleven ships, an extensive campaign by Harris to publicize the extent of lightning damage to the navy, the favorable recommendations of two study committees, and administrative changes in the Admirality before the Royal Navy finally adopted the Harris conductors in 1842.Not in Ronalds. - Not in Weaver. - Not in WorldCat.
Three experimental Illustrations of a General Law of electrical Discharge.
(London, around 1830 ?). 4to. Original violet blank wrappers, later clothbacked. Edges gilt. Wrappers slightly soiled. 16 pp. including 3 plates with leaves of gold on the plates showing the effects of the electrical discharge through various arrangements of the gold as the gold imitates metallic conductors fixed along the masts of ships.
Extremely scarce. The work relates further experiments as did the authors famous work ""Observations on the Effects of Lightning on floating Bodies..."" 1823, as it contains 2 more plates with leaves of gold, showing the ways of the electrical discharge.In 1835 he received the Copley gold medal from the Royal Society for his papers on the laws of electricity of high tension, and in 1839 he was chosen to deliver the Bakerian lecture.In 1820, William Snow Harris invented a system of fixed lightning conductor plates which were routed along the aft side of the mast down through the hull to the copper sheathing on the bottom of the ship. Harris spent the next twenty-five years trying to persuade the British Admiralty to test his system and require its installation. For years, old prejudices against lightning conductors, notions of economy, and bureaucratic suspicions of technological innovation frustrated his efforts. It took a successful trial installation on eleven ships, an extensive campaign by Harris to publicize the extent of lightning damage to the navy, the favorable recommendations of two study committees, and administrative changes in the Admirality before the Royal Navy finally adopted the Harris conductors in 1842.Not in Ronalds. - Not in Weaver. - Not in WorldCat.
Shipwreck by Lightning. Papers relative to Harris's Lightning Conductors. Appendix.
London, Woodfall and Kinder, 1852. Folio. Contemp. hcloth. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper boards. (4),37 pp. and 3 fine aquatint plates: H.M. Ship Surinam (being struck by lightening), H.M. Ship Thisbe (on fire by lightening), H.M. Ship Scylla (in a perilous thunder squall).
""Sir William Snow Harris was an English physician and electrical researcher, nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris, and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships. It took many years of campaigning, research and successful testing before the British Royal Navy changed to Harris's conductors from their previous less effective system. One of the successful test vessels was HMSBeagle which survived lightning strikes unharmed on her famous voyage with Charles Darwin.""(Wikipedia).Ronalds, p. 230. -
HARRIS, WILLIAM SNOW. - THE FIRST PRINTED BOOK TO INCLUDE AF PHYSICAL EXPERIMENT.
Reference : 58030
(1823)
Observations on the Effects of Lightning on floating Bodies" with an Account of a new Method of applying fixed and continous Conductors of electricity to the Masts of Ships. In a Letter addressed to Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Byam Martin.
London, W. Nicol, 1823. 4to. Uncut and unopened in contemp. clothbacked boards. (2),89,(1) pp., 5 lithographed plate and 1 plate printed with leaves of gold. On good paper. Clean and wide-margined.
Extremely scarce first edition. The fragments of the leaves of gold on the plate shows the effects of the electrical discharge through various arrangements of the gold as the gold imitates metallic conductors fixed along the masts of ships.In 1820, William Snow Harris invented a system of fixed lightning conductor plates which were routed along the aft side of the mast down through the hull to the copper sheathing on the bottom of the ship. Harris spent the next twenty-five years trying to persuade the British Admiralty to test his system and require its installation. For years, old prejudices against lightning conductors, notions of economy, and bureaucratic suspicions of technological innovation frustrated his efforts. It took a successful trial installation on eleven ships, an extensive campaign by Harris to publicize the extent of lightning damage to the navy, the favorable recommendations of two study committees, and administrative changes in the Admirality before the Royal Navy finally adopted the Harris conductors in 1842.Ronalds p. 288: ""Note.- The illustration accompanies plate 1. The lines on the paper originally consisted of gold leaf... A discharge has been passed over the gold leaf to show by its deflagration the course of the electrical matter.""Wheeler Gift,801.
On the Nature of Thunderstorms" and of the Means of protecting Buildings and Shipping against the destructive Effects of Lightening.
London, John W. Parker, 1843. Bound in a fine contemp. red full calf, richly gilt spine, covers profusely gilt a la cathedrale. All edges gilt. Inside gilt borders. Signed ""Hayes. Binder. Plymouth"" on bottom of inside frontcover. XIII,226 pp., 2 plates, textillustrations. Clean and fine.
First edition. ""Sir William Snow Harris was an English physician and electrical researcher, nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris, and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships. It took many years of campaigning, research and successful testing before the British Royal Navy changed to Harris's conductors from their previous less effective system. One of the successful test vessels was HMSBeagle which survived lightning strikes unharmed on her famous voyage with Charles Darwin.""(Wikipedia).
Rudimentary Magnetism: being a Concise Exposition of the general Principles of Magnetical Science and the Purposes to which it has been Applied. Part I, and II.
London, 1850. Small 8vo. Orig. full blindstamped cloth. Rebacked. Binding a little rubbed. VIII,160 pp. and 97 textillustrations.
