‎Aero-Club der Schweiz Sektion Zürich. Ballongruppe. Physikalischer Kurs.‎

‎ 1940, gr. in-4to, 51 Bl., auf der Maschine geschrieben, Original-Broschüre.‎

‎Plasmas et milieux ionisés.‎

‎ P., PUF (Collection "La Science Vivante"), 1968, in 12 broché, 134 pages ; figures et 12 planches hors texte. ‎

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‎Simultaneous Optical Maser Action in Two Ruby Satellite Lines (+) Stimulated Optical Emission from Exchange-Coupled Ions of Cr+++ in Al2O2.‎

‎New York, American physical Society, 1961. Lex8vo. Entire issue of ""Physical Review Letters, Volume 6, Number 3, February 1, 1961"" in the original blue/green wrappers. A very nice and clean copy. Pp.96-98"" Pp. 95-6. [Entire issue: Pp. 85-161].‎

‎First printing of these important papers in the history of the laser. ""An interesting historical footnote is the red ruby laser, demonstrated independently by Schawlow at Bell and by Irwin Wieder at Varian Associates, whose papers both arrived at Physical Review Letters on December 19, 1960, and were published in the same issue.21 Maiman’s laser used ""pink"" ruby, in which the chromium concentration was low enough that chromium atoms did not interact with each other. At higher concentrations the chromium atoms gave the ruby crystal a deeper red appearance, and their interaction created a four-level laser system with emission lines at 701.0 and 704.1 nm - if the material was cooled to liquid nitrogen temperature. Both Schawlow and Wieder demonstrated flashlamp-pumped lasing on the red ruby laser, but like the uranium and samarium lasers, red ruby never proved practical.""‎

‎Simultaneous Optical Maser Action in Two Ruby Satellite Lines (+) Stimulated Optical Emission from Exchange-Coupled Ions of Cr+++ in Al2O2.‎

‎New York, American physical Society, 1961. Lex8vo. Entire issue of ""Physical Review Letters, Volume 6, Number 3, February 1, 1961"" in the original blue/green wrappers. Left side of front wrapper and right side of back wrapper with mark after removal of label, not affecting text on front wrapper, otherwise fine and clean. Pp.96-98"" Pp. 95-6. [Entire volume: Pp. 85-161].‎

‎First printing of these important papers in the history of the laser. ""An interesting historical footnote is the red ruby laser, demonstrated independently by Schawlow at Bell and by Irwin Wieder at Varian Associates, whose papers both arrived at Physical Review Letters on December 19, 1960, and were published in the same issue.21 Maiman’s laser used ""pink"" ruby, in which the chromium concentration was low enough that chromium atoms did not interact with each other. At higher concentrations the chromium atoms gave the ruby crystal a deeper red appearance, and their interaction created a four-level laser system with emission lines at 701.0 and 704.1 nm - if the material was cooled to liquid nitrogen temperature. Both Schawlow and Wieder demonstrated flashlamp-pumped lasing on the red ruby laser, but like the uranium and samarium lasers, red ruby never proved practical."" ‎

‎Der elektromagnetische Telegraph in den einzelnen Stadien seiner Entwicklung und in seiner gegenwärtigen Ausbildung und Anwendung, nebst einer Einleitung über die optische und akustische Telegraphie und einem Anhange über die elektrischen Uhren. Für F...‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1850. Contemp. hcalf., spine gilt and with gilt lettering. A papelabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps ontitlepage. XII,368 pp., and 166 fine textillustr. in woodcut.‎

‎First edition. - Poggendorff II: 786.‎

‎Die Spectralanalyse in ihrer Anwendung auf die Stoffe der Erde und die Natur der Himmelskörper. Zweite durchaus umgearbeitete und sehr vermehrte Auflage.‎

‎Braunschweig, Georg Westermann, 1871. Cont. hcalf. Back worn. XVI,619 pp. Many fine textillustrations in woodcut, 4 portrait-plates, 8 plates of which 4 are coloured spectralplates.‎

‎Pushbutton Calling with a Two-Group Voice Frequency Code. - [FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE PUSH-BUTTON TELEPHONE]‎

‎New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1960. 8vo. Volume XXXIX (49), January, No. 1, 1960 of ""The Bell System Technical Journal"". Entire issue offered in the original printed blue wrappers. A bit of sunning to spine and previous owner's stamp to top of front wrapper, otherwise a very nice, clean, and fresh copy. Pp. 235-255. [Entire issue: 264 pp.].‎

‎First printing of this seminal paper in which the push-button telephone is first described. Push-button telephony was considered a revolution within telecommunication. It replaced rotary dial telephones that had been in use since 1891 and the technique behind the touch-tone format is today used for all cell phones.The first prototypes were invented in 1941 by the Bell System, these were, however, never fully functional and therefore not brought to the commercial market. The research was shelved during WWII and was not prioritized until later, after the transistor had been developed and tones could be produced with electronic oscillators in the late 1950ies. The first push-button telephone reached the commercial market in 1963, though in the mid 1970ies the majority of phone users still had rotary phones.The issue contains the following papers:1. Feiner, A." Lovell, C.A. Lowry, T.N. Ridinger, P.G. The Ferreed - A New Switching Device. Pp. 1-30.2. James, D.B. Johannesen, J.D. A Remote Line Concentrator for a Time-Separation Switching Experiment. Pp. 31-57.3. Malthaner, W.A. Runyon, J.P. Controller for a Remote Line Concentrator in a Time-Separation Switching Experiment. Pp. 59-86.4. Bakanowski, A.E. Forster, J.H. Electrical Properties of Gold-Doped Diffused Silicon Computer Diodes. Pp. 87-1045. Legg, V.E. Analysis of Quality Factor of Annular Core Inductors. Pp. 105-126.6. Benes, V.E. General Stochastic Processes in Traffic Systems with One Server. Pp. 127-160.7. Unger, Hans-Georg. Round Waveguide with Double Lining. Pp. 161-167.8. Thurmond, C.D. Kowalchik, M. Germanium and Silicon Liquidus Curves. Pp. 169-204.9. Trumbore, F.A. Solid Solubilities of Impurity Elements in Germanium and Silicon. Pp. 205-233. 10. Schenker, L. Pushbutton Calling with a Two-Group Voice-Frequency Code. Pp. 235-255.‎

‎Electromagnetic Induction Phenomena. (Springer Series in Electrophysics, 16) .‎

‎Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 1986. Orig. cased boards. XI, 296 pp.‎

‎Über den Koeffizienten der inneren Reibung von Reinem Argon und Reinem Helium. Diss.‎

‎ Halle a. S., 1908, 220x140mm, 30Seiten, broschiert. ‎

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‎Uber die Wärmekapazität von Metallen und Metallverbindungen‎

‎Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann 1909 49pp., 24cm., no wrappers, good, [Inauguraldissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde einer Hohen Philosophischen Fakultät der Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen], W76698‎

‎L'écoulement en conduites des liquides, gaz et vapeurs. Les lois de l'écoulement. La mesure des débits. Deuxième édition.‎

‎ P., Dunod (Bibliothèque Scientifique Belge), 1949, in 12 broché, 254pp. ; 81 figures et un tableau dépliant ; complet du feuillet volant d'errata. ‎

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‎Die Landenge von Sues, zur Beurtheilung des Canalprojects und des Auszugs der Israeliten aus Aegypten [Ägypten] nach den aelteren und neueren Quellen dargestellt.‎

‎Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1858, in-8°, XVI + 202 S. + 1 Bl.: Verb. und Zusätze + 6 Tafeln (davon 5 gef.) + 1 gef. farb. Karte des nordöstlichen Aegypten. Ordentliches nur am Anfang etwas stockfleckiges Ex., Hlwd. Titelei in Gold.‎

‎The quantum mehanical Three-body problem‎

‎Pergamon press. 1974. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 217 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎Etiquette sur coiffe en pied. Tampon bibliothèque. Texte écrit en anglais. Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎Handbuch der Naturlehre zum Gebrauch für Vorlesungen. 1.-2. Abtheilung.‎

‎Giessen und Darmstadt, 1801-03. Contemp. blue boards. Spine a bit rubbed. VIII,738,(4) pp. Missing the 2 plates and 1 map in the second part.‎

‎Poggendorff II, 816.‎

‎Hand=und Lehr=Buch der Naturlehre zum Gebrauche für Vorlesungen und zum eignen Studium neu entworfen.‎

‎Giessen, G.F. Heyer, 1826. Contemp. hcalf. Back gilt. X,684 pp. and 13 folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎Über die Emanation des Phosphors.‎

‎(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1903). 8vo. No wrappers. Extracted from ""Annalen der Physik"" Vierte Folge. Bd. 10. Entire issue no. 4 offered. Pp. 704-729 [Entire issue: Pp. 673-896.].‎

‎First appearance of Schmidt's paper on the emanation of phosphorus.""In 1900 Schmidt became professor ordinarius of physics at the Forstakademie in Eberswalde but soon moved to Erlangen as professor extraordinarius (1901-1904). He then went to Königsberg as professor ordinarius and director of the physical institute (1904-1908) and finally to Münster, where he occupied the chair once held by Hittorf, whom Schmidt admired and commemorated in several addresses. Schmidt retired from this post in 1935.During these years, Schmidt studied canal-ray and cathode-ray phenomena, the electrical conductivity of salt vapors, solid electrolytes, adsorption, passivity, and luminescence. He was unusually vigorous and healthy until the last year of his life, when he fractured his hipbone and was hospitalized. Shortly after he was released, he suffered a stroke and died.""(DSB)‎

‎Allgemeinfassliche Lehren und Experimente der Physik. (Ein gemeinnussiges und unterhaltendes Lehrbuch fur alle Diejenigen, welche nur wenige oder gar keine mathematischen Kenntnis befitzen). Zweiter Teil: Physikalische Experimente und Beluftigungen (mit X lithographirten Tafeln)‎

‎Ilmenau, Bernh.Fr.Boigt 1831 xxxxiv + 596pp.+ 10 enfolding plates (some traces of humidity), foxing in text, halfleather (title & decorations in gilt, on back), VG‎

‎3C 273: A Star-like Object with Large Red-shift. - [THE DISCOVERY OF QUASARS]‎

‎(London, Macmillan & Co., 1963). Royal8vo. As extracted from ""Nature"", Vol. 197, 1963. Fine and clean copy. P. 1040. [Entire offered pages: 1033-1134 pp].‎

‎First publication of the very first observation of a quasar. ""The nature of the quasars remained a mystery, but the discovery of this very bright example enabled Maarten Schmidt to obtain a high-quality optical spectrum of 3C 272 with the Palomar two-hundred-inch telescope, in California. Maarten Schmidt's elucidation of its nature opened completely new perspectives for astronomy and high-energy astrophysics"" (A Century of Nature). A quasar (quasi-stellar radio source) is a very energetic and distant active galactic nucleus. Quasars are extremely luminous and were first identified as being high redshift sources of electromagnetic energy, including radio waves and visible light, that were point-like, similar to stars, rather than extended sources similar to galaxies.This volume of Nature also contains three other seminal papers on 3C 273: J. B. Okie's ""Absolute Energy Distribution in the Optical Spectrum of 3C 273" Jesse L. Greenstein and Thomas A Matthew's Red Shift of the Unusual Radio Source 3C 48" and C. Hazard, M. B. Mackey, and A. J. Shimmin's Investigation of the Radio Source 2C 273 by the Method of Lunar Occulations.""‎

‎Albert Gockel et la découverte du rayonnement cosmique (A. Gockel 1860-1927 Prof. de physique à l’univ. de Fribourg Suisse 1903 à 1927). Discours universitaires N° 47.‎

‎Fribour, Eds. Univ., 1990, in-8vo, frontispice portrait + 40 p., brochure originale.‎

‎INITIATION A LA PRATIQUE DES RECPETION A TRANSISTORS / QUATRIEME EDITION.‎

‎RADIO. 1973. In-4. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Fortes mouillures. 132 pages illustrées de nombreuses figures et photos en noir et blanc dans le texte - Mouillures sans conséquence sur la lecture.. . . . Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 530-Physique‎

‎Energieaustausch nach der Wellenmechanik.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1927. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 83. Entire band 83 offered. Small library stamp to title page and library cards pasted on to front free end-papers. Otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 956-68. [Entire volume: VIII, 1224 pp. + 9 plates.].‎

‎First printing of Schroedinger's important paper which preceded the great work by von Neumann (November 1927) connecting thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. Von Neumann showed, in a paper published 1927, how generalized infinite-dimensional Euclidean spaces (function spaces) and linear operators provide the proper mathematical framework for quantum mechanics. ‎

‎Energieaustausch nach der Wellenmechanik.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1927. 8vo. Bound in full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 83. Entire band 83 offered. Library stamps to front free end-papers. Fine and clean. Pp. 956-68. [Entire volume: VIII, 1224 pp. + 9 plates.].‎

‎First printing of Schroedinger's important paper which preceded the great work by von Neumann (November 1927) connecting thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. Von Neumann showed, in a paper published 1927, how generalized infinite-dimensional Euclidean spaces (function spaces) and linear operators provide the proper mathematical framework for quantum mechanics. ‎

‎Statistical Thermodynamics. Course of Seminar Lectures. Delivered in January - March 1944, at the School of Theoretical Physics. - [A UNIFIED STANDARD METHOD OF DEALING WITH STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS]‎

‎Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1944. 4to. Original pre-publication typescript, hectographt print, printed on rectos only. In original red printed wrappers with black cloth spine. Paley Johanson's copy, with his owner's name and inscription to top of front wrapper: Paley Johnson/ Dept. of Colloid Science/ Free School Lane/ Cambridge"". A few smaller nicks and creases to front wrapper, otherwise a fine clean copy. (2), 135 ff.‎

‎Scarce pre-publication typescript, with an excellent provenance, of Schrödinger's important attempt at developing a simple, unified standard method of dealing with all cases of statistical thermodynamics, developed in his seminar lectures of the Dublin institute for advanced studies in January - March 1944. A very small edition of the lectures was published in hectograph form by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies [offered item]. In 1952 the first public printing, differing a bit from the hectograph printing, of the lectures appeared - in a book of the same title. That highly popular book was printed in large numbers. ""The idea of this seminar is to develop briefly one simple, unified standard method, capable of dealing, without changing the fundamental attitude, with ALL cases (classical, quantum, Bose-Einstein, Fermi-Dirac, etc.) and with every new problem that may turn up. The interest is focused on the general procedure, and examples are dealt with as illustrations thereof. Not a first introduction for new-comers to the subject is intended, rather a 'repetitorium'. The wording is extremely shortened about well-known stories to be found in every one of a hundred text-books, but more extended on some vital points, usually passed over in all but large monographs (as Fowler's and Tolman's)There is, essentially, only one problem in statistical thermodynamics: the distribution of a given amount of energy E over N identical systems..."" (From the General Introduction by Schrödinger, f. 1).It is in the course of the present lectures that Schrödinger explains why he thought the Boltzmann counting method not be appropriate. Furthermore, Schrödinger here distinguishes himself from his 1925-6 publications on the same subject by presenting (1) the complete relinquishment of the concept of wave packets, and (2) the exclusive stress put on the field quantization formalism which, for all statistical purposes, is equivalent to Schrödinger's initial quantized matter wave model. ""A very small edition of these lectures was published in hectograph by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. It is hoped that the present edition, for which the text has been slightly revised, may reach a wider circle of readers. (Initiating Note in the second edition of the book). PALEY JOHNSON (1917-2011) was a famous colloid scientist, in the field of which he became a world authority, focusing on the physical properties of biological macromolecules in solution. Having won a place at Trinity College Cambridge and gone on to make a PhD there, he went on to the Royal Institution in London, where, along with Albert Alexander, he produced a comprehensive two-volume Oxford University Press monograph on Colloid Science, which, for nearly half a century, remained the authoritative text in the field, and is still a valuable reference source, even today. Primarily in recognition of this, along with other achievements, the University subsequently awarded Paley the distinction of an ScD degree. In 1950, he returned to Free School Lane to take up an academic post at the Colloid Science Laboratory.""Paley was first and foremost an experimentalist, one of the best, and his attention turned to physical techniques for solving biological problems - to two techniques in particular, of which he became the master and a world authority. One was the analytical Utracentrifuge. [...] Paley found a completely new application for this technique in the characterization of gels, gelatin and other jelly-like materials. One of the present world leaders in colloid science, Professor Helmut Colfen at the University of Konstanz in Germany, comments on this work on gel analysis in the analytical ultracentrifuge: ""Paley did the first systematic analyses of gel systems in the centrifuge which was highly pioneering work since up to then, only solutions or dispersions of particles had been investigated. He found that the behaviour of a gel in the centrifuge was fundamentally different from a solution or dispersion and established the theory describing this. He was thus the first one to accurately describe the behaviour of gels in the centrifugal field and laid the foundations for the analysis and understanding of the important class of materials known as hydrogels, crucial for their application in food and biopharmaceuticals.""The other technique which became Paley's trademark was light scattering of macromolecular dispersions - a technique requiring meticulous attention to detail. Without that attention, as Paley would say, ""experiments were not useful"". In his own research and publications, he did a lot to establish good practice, giving detailed procedures for achieving this, and was very critical of other studies where this attention to detail was not followed or shortcuts had been taken. [...] Colloid science at Cambridge and Paley Johnson were almost synonymous."" (Steve Harding, Obituary in The Biochemical society, december 2011).Colloid Science, with its study of large molecules, is a bridge building subject lying at the boundary of a number of disciplines, physical chemistry, biology and mathematics. It's results are important and beneficiel in a large number of fields. During the War Paley worked in the colloid laboratory collaborating with others on various projects: the development of incendiary mixtures and the use of cellulose nitrate in making cordite for rockets" the use of detergents in lubrication the use of synthetic polymers in warfare. He also had a wartime research Fellowship sponsored by ICI looking at an interest, which remained a serious study, the use of the protein in peanut butter. ‎

‎Über die Leitung der Elektrizität auf der Oberfläche von Isolatoren an feuchter Luft (mit 3 Textfiguren) (Vorgelegt an der Sitzung am 30. Juni 1910). [In. Sitzungsberichte der keiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlic... - [SCHRÖDINGER'S FIRST PUBLICATION]‎

‎Wien, 1910. Entire volume present: 8vo. Uncut and unopened in the orig. printed wrappers. A bit of brwonspotting and soiling, but in all a very good and well preserved copy. Pp. 1215-1222. Entire volume: (2) pp., pp. 1057-1379, (3, -blank), 4 (table of contents, on different, very thin paper) pp.‎

‎First edition of Schrödinger's dissertation, his first printed work, ""On the Conduction of Electricity on the Surface of Insulators in Moist Air.""In 1907, Schrödinger began attending lectures in theoretical physics at the University of Vienna. This was Schrödinger's third semester, but theoretical physics had been closed down at the university for two years after of Boltzmann's death. Haselörhl became the new professor and Schrödinger appreciated his lectures on theoretical physics so much that he attended them five days a week for eight semesters in a row. In 1910 Schrödinger received the doctorate under Haselöhrl for the present work.At the time when Schrödinger worked on the present treatise, electrical insulation in instruments for the measurement of radioactivity and ionization played an important role in experimental physics. Almost all of the work was done in the department of Franz Exner and the experiments were carried out in the small laboratory that he shared with Jakob Salpeter. The work is centered around a set of electrical measurements that are designed to show the effects of moist air on the conductivity of solid insulators such as amber, glass, sulfur, ebonite etc. The work is considered as showing Schrödinger's excellent experimental abilities, but he is criticized with lacking theoretical content. He also neglected to carry out a control experiment to prove his assumption that the effects of the moist air on the conductivity of the insulators was restricted to the surface, and he didn't mention the temperature at which his measurements were made. However, his practical work with these insulating solids did prove to be of great importance" they were the basis of his important survey of dielectricity that he completed in 1814. The work was presented at a meeting of the Vienna Academy of Sciences on June 30th, 1910, and this was the first time that Schrödinger delivered a report on his own research work to fellow scientists. The dissertation was published a few weeks later in the proceedings of the Academy, and this was Schrödinger's first publication.The Austrian physicist Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (1887 -1961) is widely renowned for his contributions to quantum mechanics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1933.‎

‎Are there Quantum Jumps ?. Part I-II.‎

‎Edinburgh, Nelson and Sons, 1952-53. 8vo. Contemp. hcloth. Tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. In: ""The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science"", Vol. III (May 1952 to February 1953). XIV,394 pp. Entire volume offered. Stamps to foot of titlepage and a few other pages. Schrödinger's papers: pp. 109-123 a. 233-242. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of these importent papers on the philosophy of Quantum physics. ""If we have to go on with these damned quantum jumps, then I'm sorry that I ever got involved."" (E.Schrodinger).""In it he contrasts the smooth evolution of the Schrodinger wavefunction with the erratic behaviour of the picture by which the wavefunction is usually supplemented, or 'interpreted', in the minds of most physicists. He objects in particular to the notion of 'stationary states', and above all to 'quantum jumping' between those states. He regards these concepts as hangovers from the old Bohr quantum theory, of 1913, and entirely unmotivated by anything in the mathematics of the new theory of 1926. (J.S. Bell).‎